try '#make distclean' before if you've run configure once without the --with-ssl option before. At 10:32 07/06/01 -0700, you wrote: >openssl is in /usr/local/ssl >I've tried many config options :) >The first was ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl > >I am using gcc. >The lines just before the error are >Checking where to look for SSL... /usr/local/ssl >Checking for CRYPTO_lock in -lcrypto... (cached) no >Then the error > >Thanks, > >-Joe > >Daniel Stenberg wrote: >> >> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Joe wrote: >> >> > I am using openssl-0.9.6a and curl7.7.3 on solaris2.8 >> >> > I get this error like many of the posters during configure time >> > configure: error: OpenSSL libs and/or directories were not found where >> > specified! >> >> Where is openssl installed? How did you run curl's configure? What did >> configure say about the SSL related libs in its output (just before that >> error message)? Are you using gcc? >> >> I've personally compiled and built curl 7.7.3 on solaris 2.7 with OpenSSL >> 0.9.6a, so I don't think this is a bug... >> >> -- >> Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/ > ---------------------------- Juan Valentin-Pastrana jvalentin@arrakis.es ICQ# 56166878