techblog 

I’ve been making packages for Solaris i386 architecture recently and have been compiling ruby as it’s required by puppet - our excellent configuration management software.

I had no trouble compiling it and making a Solaris package but when I came to use it to install puppet I ran into this

-bash-3.00$ ruby install.rb DESTDIR=${DESTDIR}
Could not load openssl; cannot install

It seems that ruby hadn’t included the openssl files into it’s build.

I found a post that said that openssl wasn’t included in ubuntu by default and it could be installed manually, so I tried it and found out that it could not find a header file:

-bash-3.00$ cd ruby-1.8.6-p114/ext/openssl/
-bash-3.00$ ruby extconf.rb
=== OpenSSL for Ruby configurator ===
=== Checking for system dependent stuff... ===
checking for t_open() in -lnsl... yes
checking for socket() in -lsocket... yes
checking for assert.h... yes
=== Checking for required stuff... ===
checking for openssl/ssl.h... no
=== Checking for required stuff failed. ===
Makefile wasn't created. Fix the errors above.

A quick modify of the CFLAGS variable to add “-I” and a re-run of configure/make and ruby had openssl support built in.