[plt-dev] setup-plt error

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 11 11:29:04 EDT 2009

Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Jon Rafkind wrote at 03/11/2009 01:57 AM:
>> I just updated svn (14049) and built from source. I saw this in 
>> setup-plt.
>>
>> ...
>> setup-plt: running: web-server/scribblings/web-server.scrbl
>> ffi-lib: couldn't open "libcrypto.so" (libcrypto.so: cannot open 
>> shared object file: No such file or directory)
> [...]
>
> I suspect  that's one of the OpenSSL shared libraries.  Perhaps you 
> don't have that installed?
I checked that.
/usr/lib $ ls -l libcrypt*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   44870 2008-09-12 08:33 libcrypt.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1342340 2009-01-07 11:43 libcrypto.so.0.9.8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 2008-09-30 09:30 libcrypt.so -> 
/lib/libcrypt.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 2008-09-30 07:30 libcryptui.so.0 -> 
libcryptui.so.0.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   56056 2008-05-27 08:45 libcryptui.so.0.0.0

Annnnd now I see the problem too. libcrypt != libcrypto I guess. Do 
other system symlink libcrypto.so.x.y.z to libcrypto.so? I am using 
ubuntu 8.04.


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