Sorry but - In what world is building httpd/openssl from source saner than upgrading your distro that is going EOL in 3 month? The distro upgrade/switch work is anyhow about to be inevitable so you may as well start it before you are forced even more than you are now.
HTH, Eliyahu - אליהו Amazon Linux 2 is going EOL in June 2026 - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AL2/latest/relnotes/relnotes-20251208.html Op di 17 mrt 2026 om 00:13 schreef Frank Gingras <[email protected]>: > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM James H. H. Lampert via users < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM I wrote: >> . . . >> >> Amazon tells me that if I want openssl 1.1, I need to install it >> >> separately. And when I did a Google search on how to switch httpd >> >> over to a separately installed openssl 1.1, everything I got said >> >> "compile from source." >> >> >> >> How on Earth would I do that, without having any development tools >> >> on the instance? >> >> >> >> Can somebody point me to a path-of-least-resistance? >> >> And on 3/16/26 2:21 PM, Frank Gingras wrote: >> >> > Installing openssl 1.1 and rebuilding httpd is likely the sanest >> > approach here. >> >> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, but . . . >> >> Having never actually done an httpd rebuild before, I have no idea >> whether the Amazon Linux 2 instance in question is currently capable of >> it, or what else needs to be installed if it's not currently capable. >> >> -- >> James H. H. Lampert >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > You likely need to install the -devel packages if the headers are not > included in the main install base, or if the packages are stripped. > httpd uses the configure script, which should be able to find all > dependencies, or yell if one of them isn't met. > > The short answer is that you'll need apr and apr-util, as well as openssl > headers. >
