On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:22:20PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: > Allegedly openssl (which is loaded) provides this, but... > > ./configure --with-openssl And have you installed openssl-devel? (well, clearly the answer is no because you haven't actually paid any attention to anything I've written) % yum whatprovides libcrypto.a [snip] openssl-devel.i386 0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1 c4-local Matched from: /usr/lib/libcrypto.a openssl-devel.i586 0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1 c4-local Matched from: /usr/lib/libcrypto.a You can lead a horse to water.... -- rgds Stephen