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.

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