I would look in config.log to see why configure is failing.
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Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I've been trying to add --with-openssl options to the nightly builds,
> but have not been able to get postgresql compiled with this option.
> MinGW compiles the openssl library with no problems...
>
> configure --with-openssl
> configure complains about missing crypto library
>
> ok, I manually added --with-libs=/usr/local/ssl/lib (even though this is
> the default location), now crypto is found, but configure still
> complains about missing ssl library, which is in the same folder. (this
> is all with openssl-0.9.7d, btw).
>
> I was curious, so I manually hacked configure to skip the ssl library
> check so I could see what happened during the build. Never made it to
> the link step, there were problems trying to compile the front end. I
> gave up at that point, thinking maybe I picked a openssl library that
> was too new.
>
> Has anybody had any luck compiling recent version of pg with openssl
> (either in mingw or otherwise?)
>
> As a side note, I bumped up gcc to 3.4 trying to resolve this. It
> didn't help, but did result in a 2/3 reduction in compile times, so I'm
> leaving it that way until somebody says otherwise :)
>
> Merlin
>
>
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