Opdate Curl with newest OpenSSL on Ubuntu 10.04

Question

I have a very old Ubuntu server running 10.04.

It will go out of production over the summer but I have a problem now that requires that i update the PHP curl to use OpenSSL so i have TLS v 1.2. The one shipped with 10.04 doesn't support this version.

From OpenSSL i downloaded v 1.0.1u.

I did a:

./buildconf
./configure
make
make install

having completed the process i do a

d7:~/openssl-1.0.1u$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1u  22 Sep 2016
d7:~/openssl-1.0.1u$ ^C

So the update of OpenSSL seems to have completed successfully.

All the OpenSSL libraries, headers and so on seems to have been created in

/usr/local/ssl

The subdirectory ./lib contains

libcrypto.a and libssl.a which i suppose are the static libraries.

I think the openSSL installation is correct and it seems fine.

I downloaded Curl v 7.39.0 and want it to use the newly installed openSSL installation. But no matter what i do it doesn't seems to find the correct libraries.

I do a:

./buildconf

and it ends succesfully.

now the problems starts.

If I do a

./configure make make install

it bulds curl but without any SSL support.

I i do any of the following:

./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local 
./configure --with-ssl --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local
./configure --with-ssl --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/ssl
./configure --with-ssl --with-libssl-prefix=/usr/local/ssl

env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --with-ssl 

it stops the .configure step with:

checking for SSL_connect in -lssl... no
checking for ssl with RSAglue/rsaref libs in use... checking for SSL_connect in -lssl... (cached) no
no
configure: error: OpenSSL libs and/or directories were not found where specified!

I have read several SO answers on how to compile CURLK this way but it doesn't seems to work for me.

can anybody shed some light on what I'm missing?

Answer 1

I'm in a very similar situation. After about a day of messing with parameters, I found the magic that makes curl (7.58) compile correctly with openssl support.

CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib" ./configure  --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-shared

I also passed in --with-zlib and --prefix=/usr/local/curl, but those probably aren't strictly necessary.

Basically you need to tell it not only where your openssl install lives but half of the specific paths within that directory!