# Installation problem proper use of ./configure

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-proper-use-of-configure/83254>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 24, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-proper-use-of-configure/83254 "2007-01-24T18:03:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jts](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@jts](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jts)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-proper-use-of-configure/83254/1 "2007-01-24T18:03:41Z")

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I’m trying to install ruby on an older linux box. When I install, with  
./configure, make, …, it errors out on make with an error in the  
openssl version (needs 9.7 and i have 9.6). I installed a new openssl in  
a different location (/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl) and kept the old one  
in place.

I configure via:  
./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl

and when I run make it errors out in same place with:

“gcc -I…/… -I…/…/. -I…/…/./ext/openssl -g -O2 -c conftest.c”  
conftest.c:3:3: #error “OpenSSL version is less than 0.9.7.”  
checked program was:  
/\* begin _/  
1: #include \<openssl/opensslv.h\>  
2: #if OPENSSL\_VERSION\_NUMBER \< 0x00907000L  
3: # error “OpenSSL version is less than 0.9.7.”  
4: #endif  
/_ end \*/

Is there any way I can see whether the new openssl install is being  
used?

-j

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**Author:** ![jts](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@jts](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jts)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installation-problem-proper-use-of-configure/83254/2 "2007-09-17T13:21:42Z")

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Hi,

At Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:03:43 +0900,  
Jon Johnson wrote in [ruby-talk:235925]:

> ./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl

Maybe --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl, if you have headers in  
“include” and libraries in “lib” directories underneath there.