> I have installed openssl-0.9.7a_2 from the ports collection without
> a glitch. I'm new to this and don't know if simply doing make, make
> install and make clean is all that is required for getting openssl
> properly installed. It shows up listed in /var/db/pkg in my FreeBSD
> 4.6 system. However, when I try to make postgresql7 from the ports
> collection I'm told:
>
> This port requires the OpenSSL library, which is part of the FreeBSD
> crypto distribution but not installed on your machine.
>
> Not sure what to do next.
This is because libcrypto had its shlib version bumped from .2 to .3
after OpenSSL's last round of security bugs. If you symlink
libcrypto.so.2 to libcrypto.so, you should be okay. -sc
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Sean Chittenden