How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

[Jerry]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
George Sanders <gosand1982 at yahoo.com> replied:

>
>
>I would like to:
>
>- upgrade the built-in OpenSSL that comes with FreeBSD (in my case,
>6.4-RELEASE)
>
>- replace it with OpenSSL that I build myself from the source tarball
>
>
>If I do this with a plain old:  ./config ; make ; make install
>
>
>OpenSSL does indeed build and install, but it installs in an alternate
>location and does not overwrite the FreeBSD built-in.
>
>Ok, should be easy to fix - I will simply use an:
>
>--prefix
>
>config directive and point it to /usr:
>
>--prefix=/usr
>
>However, that does not work - running:
>
>/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl version
>
>shows me that this binary has not changed.  Ok, no problem, I will
>simply use:
>
>--prefix=/usr/local
>
>instead ... but that also does not work.
>
>No matter what I do, I cannot get the OpenSSL source tarball to
>overwrite my built-in OpenSSL in FreeBSD - I always end up having two
>binaries in two different locations.
>
>Can someone tell me how to just cleanly replace the built-in OpenSSL
>with the source tarball ?

I use this in my /etc/make.conf file:

	WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com

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