Building Subversion 1.5.4 on Debian: could not find library containing RSA_new

Question

I've been trying to build subversion (on a limited account) for a long time but without any luck :(

The instructions I'm following: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Subversion_Installation

Running this:

./configure --prefix=${RUN} --without-berkeley-db --with-ssl --with-zlib --enable-shared

Gives me this error:

checking for library containing RSA_new... not found
configure: error: could not find library containing RSA_new
configure failed for neon

Can someone explain to me:

1. Possible reasons for this
2. Possible ways to circumvent it
3. Optional: What these modules are and what their purpose is (Neon/RSA_new)

Thanks!

Log file contents:

Trying to find interesting bits from the neon config.log file:

configure:27693: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
/tmp/ccazXdJz.o: In function `main':
/home/stpinst/soft/subversion-1.5.4/neon/conftest.c:93: undefined reference to `RSA_new'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:27699: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
...
| int
| main ()
| {
| RSA_new();
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:27742: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  -lcrypto  -lz >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:27748: $? = 1

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Answer 1

1. you don't have libcrypto.a and libcrypto.so on your system
2. you need to install install libcrypto, which is in the libssl-dev package (aptitude install libssl-dev)
3. Neon is the WebDAV library included in subversion; WebDAV being one of the wire protocols that subversion supports (http:). RSA is an encryption algorithm. Neon doesn't actually need it itself - it's just that configure uses it to determine whether libcrypto is available.

Answer 2

did you check Compiling Subversion with SSL Support, where the following varaibles were needed to complete the process ?

setenv CC "gcc -I/usr/local/ssl/include -L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
setenv CFLAGS "-O2 -g -I/usr/local/ssl/include"
setenv LDFLAGS "-L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
setenv CPP "gcc -E -I/usr/local/ssl/include"

And the post could not find library containing RSA_new, recommend to made sure the headers were also installed on the system (Debian-Ubuntu-Dapper-Beta2: "apt-get install libssl-dev"), or as Martin says: aptitude install libssl-dev.

In short, either the headers are not there, or they are not in the proper path during the configure process.

Answer 3

NB: I'm using a shared host so I'm not able to do some things.

Calling

apt-get install libssl-dev

gives me this error:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

Calling aptitude install libssl-dev

gives me this error:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) 
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root

As you can perhaps see, I'm totally lost so any further hand-holding would be greatly appreciated! :)

Answer 4

You either need to install OpenSSL first, or configure --without-ssl (or just omit the --with-ssl option if you have been following the instructions literally).

Answer 5

If I skip the SSL:

./configure --prefix=${RUN} --without-ssl

I get this error:

checking for openssl/opensslv.h... no
configure: error: We require OpenSSL; try --with-openssl
configure failed for serf

If i do:

 ./configure --prefix=${RUN} --with-openssl

I get a warning:

configure: WARNING: Unrecognized options: --with-openssl
...
configure: error: '--with-openssl requires a path to a directory'
configure failed for serf

:-s

Answer 6

I think I've finally got the "configure" part to work.

First, I retrieved openssl locally:

wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8a.tar.gz
tar zxvf openssl-0.9.8a.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.8a
./configure --prefix=${RUN}
make
make install

Then I built subversion with a reference to that folder:

./configure --prefix=${RUN} --without-berkeley-db --with-openssl=$HOME/soft/openssl-0.9.8a

I actually got this warning:

configure: WARNING: Unrecognized options: --with-openssl

Now that I though I had it all covered, it compiles for a few minutes but then gives me this error:

link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../..//libsqlite                                                                        3.la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../..//libsqlite                                                                        .la' seems to be moved
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../..//libexpat.                                                                        la' seems to be moved
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libserf-0.la] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/local/home/stpinst/soft/subversion-1.5.4/serf'
make: *** [external-all] Error 1

This seems to be the neverending story... can I somewhere just download the latest binaries?

Answer 7

Check out my response over here.

Answer 8

Finally got it to work. How: download openssl-0.x.x.tar.gz, unpack, cd into it

install it somewhere, like (for me)

$ ./config shared --prefix=$HOME/installs && make clean && make && make install

$  export CFLAGS= "-O2 -g -I/root/installs/include"
$  export CFLAGS="-O2 -g -I/root/installs/include"
$  export LDFLAGS="-L/root/installs/lib"
$  export CPP="gcc -E -I/root/installs/include"

unpack the subversion + its deps

go into the neon subdirectory

$ ./configure --with-ssl=openssl --prefix=$HOME/installs && make clean && make && make install

delete the neon directory

go into the subversion directory

$ ./configure --with-ssl --prefix=$HOME/installs --with-neon=/root/installs/bin/neon-config && make clean && make && make install

Note: you might be able to get away without all the exports by using --with-ssl=/root/installs or something along those lines.