I'm having an interesting problem compiling a CPAN module (Net::SSLeay in particular). This particular module creates a binary library, SSLeay.so. For various reasons, I have to make/compile this module by hand.

The problem I am having is that the prior admins never "really" updated this particular system, and instead created a new directory /usr/local/ssl/ssl_version and installed new versions of ssl into that directory tree, and then passed the proper path to Apache and other programs when they compiled/installed the new versions. There are assorted "bad" versions of libssl scattered around the system being used by assorted programs (I'm working on cleaning those up too.)

I was able to edit the Makefile to get rid of /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib64. I even added the path I want into the Makefile as

LDDLFLAGS = -shared -O2 -L/usr/local/DPS/openssl/openssl-1.0.1m -L/lib
+ -L/usr -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector
LDFLAGS =  -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/DPS/openssl/openssl-1.0.1m -
+L/usr -L/usr/local/lib
EXTRALIBS =  -L/usr/local/DPS/openssl/openssl-1.0.1m  -L/usr -L/lib  -
+lssl -lcrypto -lz
LDLOADLIBS =  -L/usr/local/DPS/openssl/openssl-1.0.1m  -L/usr -L/lib  
+-lssl -lcrypto -lz

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But it still links to the bad version in /lib.

Any ideas on how to force it to force it to link to the version I want at /usr/local/DPS/openssl/openssl-1.0.1m

(I'm sure it's something stupid...)

Thanks!

In reply to Linking CPAN modules to specific library by ewedaa

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