On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 05:06 +0900, Bill Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > From: "Jonathan Leighton" <lists / turnipspatch.com> > > > > Where I work we have an Ubuntu server. I installed Ruby by compiling the > > 1.8.4 sources. According to the standard library documentation at > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/, the openssl library should be included > > in the standard distribution -- I need this in order to run SwitchTower. > > However, it doesn't appear to be there. I cannot require it, and > > checking in /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 I cannot see anything to do with > > openssl. Anyone have any ideas? Am I supposed to do something else? > > I don't know why it doesn't build automatically, but whenever I build > ruby from source, I do the following: > > cd ext/openssl > make install > > in order to build the ruby openssl extension. > > (On debian, I also recall having needed to build the OpenSSL library > [not the ruby extension, but the system library] from a source package, > in order to get the needed header files.) Thanks for the info. -- Jonathan Leighton http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://jonathanleighton.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/