Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fdm fails during ./configure: libssl not found

[Bryant Morrow]

Aha! Thank you for that, I didn't see those bug reports in my Google searches. Now I know to check the bugtracking projects directly.

I've set up a local portage repo with a modified fdm-1.9 ebuild using the patch given in that link, and fdm builds without issue. Thank you!

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:04:19 +0100, <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> (Nuno Silva) wrote:

> On 2019-06-24, Bryant Morrow wrote:
>
> > ---
> >
> > fdm-1.9 consistently fails to build, with configure citing a lack of
> > libssl as the reason. I have openssl installed, and
> > /usr/lib64/libssl.so (symlink to /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1) exists.
> > I've looked for similar problems online, with no luck. It originally
> > seemed to be related to a broken version of openssl being unmasked
> > along with the use of ~amd64 in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but resolving that
> > made no difference. It seems to me that fdm's config scripts simply
> > can't find libssl, but they appear to be looking in all of the correct
> > places. I had it installed and working in the past, but it was removed
> > due to a stupid (on my part) accident with emerge --depclean and now
> > fails to reinstall.
> >
> > Output of emerge -pqv 'net-mail/fdm-1.9::gentoo':
> > http://dpaste.com/2B1YBPZ //emerge -pqv
> >
> > Output of emerge --info 'net-mail/fdm-1.9::gentoo':
> > http://dpaste.com/0D1PK0E //emerge --info
> >
> > Contents of build.log: http://dpaste.com/1CFZF87 //build.log
> >
> > Contents of portage environment file: http://dpaste.com/2XJD461
> > //environment
>
> This looks like bug 677484 - the problem would indeed be the way this
> config script tries to detect libssl.
>
> I don't use fdm, but from what I read in the bug report, I suppose you
> could try downgrading openssl to 1.0.*, or change the fdm ebuild to
> apply the patch from comment 9.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677484
>
> --
> Nuno Silva