# Compiling ext/openssl ruby 1.8.5 on Linux

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 13, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compiling-ext-openssl-ruby-1-8-5-on-linux/75831 "2006-11-13T19:15:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![flatekmonkey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@flatekmonkey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flatekmonkey)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compiling-ext-openssl-ruby-1-8-5-on-linux/75831/1 "2006-11-13T19:15:52Z")

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Hi list

the problem just seems to elude me -and Google for that matter- whatever  
I  
do as soon as I compile ruby (1.8.5 and snapshot) on my 2.6.17  
debian/ubuntu  
based boxen I cannot get anything done in ext/openssl  
  
…  
compiling openssl  
rm -f …/…/.ext/expect.rb  
compiling pty  
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/guest/ruby-1.8.5/ext/pty’  
…

Sorry if this is a known issue, but any help would be appreciated.  
It works on Cygwin!!!

## Cheers Robert

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one  
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress  
depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

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**Author:** ![flatekmonkey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@flatekmonkey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flatekmonkey)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compiling-ext-openssl-ruby-1-8-5-on-linux/75831/2 "2006-11-13T23:53:04Z")

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Hi,

In message “Re: [Pbm] Compiling ext/openssl ruby 1.8.5 on Linux”  
on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:14:38 +0900, “Robert D.”  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

|the problem just seems to elude me -and Google for that matter- whatever I  
|do as soon as I compile ruby (1.8.5 and snapshot) on my 2.6.17 debian/ubuntu  
|based boxen I cannot get anything done in ext/openssl  
|  
|…  
|compiling openssl  
|rm -f …/…/.ext/expect.rb

Show us your ext/openssl/mkmf.log to identify the problem. I doubt  
that your openssl library installation is incomplete.

```
						matz.

```

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**Author:** ![flatekmonkey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@flatekmonkey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flatekmonkey)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compiling-ext-openssl-ruby-1-8-5-on-linux/75831/3 "2006-11-14T10:21:58Z")

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On 11/13/06, Yukihiro M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> |based boxen I cannot get anything done in ext/openssl

Thx for your quick reply, I did not now about mkmf.log, there is really  
not  
much of an excuse I did not find it, but I just did not! :(.  
I guess you got me going, it seems the openssl headers are missing, I  
have  
nevertheless attached the file, but I guess I can resolve that on my own  
now.  
I have to admit the boxes are in quite an experimental state but all  
ruby  
work so far was plain sailing, this was the first problem I have  
encountered.

## Cheers Robert

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one  
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress  
depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw