On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:50:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 7.4 and earlier configure scripts used to have a special case to
> automatically handle the situation where openssl is under /usr/local/ssl.
> We don't anymore; you have to say so if it's in any nonstandard location.
> I'm not sure what the rationale was for that change, but it was
> intentional...
These look like the rationale and commit messages:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-11/msg01297.phphttp://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2003-11/msg00278.php
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Michael Fuhr