This procedure works fine for years on RH/CentOS 3+ The current machine is a core 2 duo with x86_64 CentOS 4.4 (updated) Compile, make and install openssl in /usr/local/openssl configure mod_ssl for apache 1.3.37 configure apache using SSL_BASE=/usr/local/openssl SSL_INCDIR=/usr/local/openssl/include SSL_LIBDIR=/usr/local/openssl/lib ./configure --with-layout=Apache --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-module=most --enable-shared=max --enable-module=ssl make dies here: gcc -L/usr/local/openssl/lib -shared -o libssl.so mod_ssl.lo ssl_engine_config.lo ssl_engine_compat.lo ssl_engine_ds.lo ssl_engine_dh.lo ssl_engine_init.lo ssl_engine_kernel.lo ssl_engine_rand.lo ssl_engine_io.lo ssl_engine_log.lo ssl_engine_mutex.lo ssl_engine_pphrase.lo ssl_engine_vars.lo ssl_engine_ext.lo ssl_scache.lo ssl_scache_dbm.lo ssl_scache_shmht.lo ssl_scache_shmcb.lo ssl_expr.lo ssl_expr_scan.lo ssl_expr_parse.lo ssl_expr_eval.lo ssl_util.lo ssl_util_ssl.lo ssl_util_sdbm.lo ssl_util_table.lo -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6 -lgcc /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/openssl/lib/libssl.a(s2_srvr.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/openssl/lib/libssl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [libssl.so] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all] Error 1 make[2]: *** [subdirs] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloads/apache_1.3.37/src' make[1]: *** [build-std] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/downloads/apache_1.3.37' make: *** [build] Error 2 It seems there's something wrong with mod_ssl on 64bit OS, but yet I see RPM's that claim to work (haven't tried). I have googled for hours but haven't found anything helpful. Anyone out there familiar with this issue and it's resolve? Thx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061025/69c7f9de/attachment-0004.html>