In article <burr7d$lmb34$1@ID-159130.news.uni-berlin.de>,
Madhusudan Singh <spammers-get-bounced@yahoo.com> wrote:
: I have been trying to set up freeradius (version 0.9.3) on my desktop all
:morning but it always fails :

: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freeradius

:--with-rlm-rlm_eap_tls-lib-dir=/usr/local/ssl/lib/
:--with-rlm-rlm_eap_tls-include-dir=/usr/local/ssl/include/

:checking for openssl/ssl.h... no
:checking for openssl/err.h... no
:checking for openssl/engine.h... no

:Now openssl (0.9.7b) is installed in /usr/local/ssl and there does not seem
:to be any way of telling the configure script that.

It's already looking in /usr/local/ssl -- examine the -with-rlm lines.
For whatever reasons, you don't have some expected / desired
include files in /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl/ . Possibly you
installed the library but not the header files.
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