On Thu October 9 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having trouble installing the current openssl on an older
> slackware 10.2 linux distribution.  As indicated below it came
> with a /lib/libcrypt-2.3.5.so dated  2005-09-10
> I downloaded and tried to install openssl-0.9.8i.tar.gz
> As indicated by the directory listings below only part of it seems
> to build and install, although I see no error messages anywhere.
> 
> I've looked at the other postings, and no one seems to be having
> any issues like this.  Am I doing something really stupid?
>

What version of the system C library are you running?
It is also an executable, just execute it, it will tell you.
You should be able to find it in /lib
Something like:

wolf466:~# /lib/libc-2.7.so

GNU C Library stable release version 2.7, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.3.1.
Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.25.10<< system on 2008-07-29.
Available extensions:
        crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
        GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
        Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
        BIND-8.2.3-T5B
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.

There have been some basic changes made since 2005

Mike 
> Below are some directory listings of what's installed after I
> running ./config, make, and INSTALL
> 
> The instructions said I should replace the /usr/include/openssl/*.h with
> the new ones.  Actually I think it said delete them, but they didn't
> get installed so I copied them in manually.
> 
> If you look at the stuff below, what I have is the originally distributed
> 2005 and 2006 files still in place for libcrypt*
> Conversely the /usr/local/ssl directory which didn't exist before
> was created and populated, but libcrypto.so.0.9.8 doesn't seem to
> exist althought there is a link to it!
> 
> My man pages for openssl and libcrypto after the install do not reflect
> the new version.
> 
> What is going on?
> 
> ls -l /lib/libcry*
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 25168 2005-09-10 18:05 /lib/libcrypt-2.3.5.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    17 2006-03-18 06:49 /lib/libcrypt.so.1 ->
> libcrypt-2.3.5.so*
> 
> ls -l /usr/lib/libcry*
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   22400 2005-09-10 18:05 /usr/lib/libcrypt.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      23 2006-03-18 06:49 /usr/lib/libcrypt.so ->
> ../../lib/libcrypt.so.1*
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   22850 2005-09-10 18:05 /usr/lib/libcrypt_p.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1965202 2005-06-13 00:14 /usr/lib/libcrypto.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      14 2006-03-18 06:52 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so ->
> libcrypto.so.0*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 2006-03-18 06:52 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0
> -> libcrypto.so.0.9.7*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 1047016 2005-06-13 00:14 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7*
> 
> 
> ls -l /usr/local/ssl/lib
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 2008-10-05 16:25 engines/
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2229400 2008-10-05 16:25 libcrypto.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 2008-10-05 16:25 libcrypto.so ->
> libcrypto.so.0.9.8
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  370796 2008-10-05 16:25 libssl.a
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      15 2008-10-05 16:25 libssl.so ->
> libssl.so.0.9.8*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 1305706 2008-10-05 16:25 libssl.so.0.9.8*
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 2008-10-05 13:45 pkgconfig/
> 
> 
> similarly in my build directory I have the link to libcrypto.so.0.9.8 but
> the file itself doesn't
> seem to exist.
> ls -l /usr/src/openssl   libcry*
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2229400 2008-10-05 15:55
> /usr/src/openssl-0.9.8i/libcrypto.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     250 2008-10-05 16:00
> /usr/src/openssl-0.9.8i/libcrypto.pc
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      18 2008-10-05 16:23
> /usr/src/openssl-0.9.8i/libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.0.9.8
> total 3840
> 
> 
> 
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