This has me stumped. Do libraries cache or something? I went through this at least 10 times and used a bash script to do it all - same session even - and suddenly it is runnning. I was damn careful to try to reporoduce EXACTLY what I did before. Perhaps there is somthing in the make install that doesn't work properly in all cases but I can not see anything. Clearly there does seem to be a repeatable problem with the installation of the shared libs. But this is totally unrelated to what I was running in to. The problem from the apache side is that gen_test_char found in src/main would not run and it complained about a missing library. The one thing I did differently is go into /usr/local and remove both ssl and apache before this latest rebuild. Perhaps there was something in the old ssl directory that triggered this but I doubt it and I can't see anything that should not be there. Anyway, if anyone has encountered anything like this I'd like to know. I'll be rebuilding on a regular basis I think and if I see anything I'll try to reproduce and track it down. If anyone else has any ideas please advise. Thanks ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]