[CentOS] mcrypt 2.6.8 on centos 6

Fri Jul 10 11:19:27 UTC 2015
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

On 07/10/2015 01:14 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I downloaded mcyrpt 2.6.8, untar, cd into the tree and did
> ./configure and I get errors.
>
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
> checking for libmcrypt-config... no
> checking for libmcrypt - version >= 2.5.0... no
> *** Could not run libmcrypt test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for
> the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means LIBMCRYPT was incorrectly
> installed
> *** or that you have moved LIBMCRYPT since it was installed. In the latter
> case, you
> *** may want to edit the libmcrypt-config script: no
> configure: error: *** libmcrypt was not found
>
> I'm still on ./configure  not the make
>
> Anyone installed from source? I found libmcrypt on a fedora repo but its
> only 2.5.8
>
> Thanks!

mcrypt 2.6.8 is in epel for el6.