[Ruby] compiling ruby 1.8.5 w/ openssl on Debian (Etch/testing) 686 in $HOME

[Mike Mondragon]

I'm having trouble getting ruby 1.8.5 to include openssl when it is comiled
on a Debian box in a user's $HOME directory.

There are many similar discussions on Debian and Ubuntu forums and the
"Debian way" is to just use the deb packages and make sure to include
libopenssl-ruby.  This question is not about that.

Specifically I want to have ruby 1.8.5 compiled in my user environment with
openssl support on my Debian box.  I am able to do this in a basic hosting
environment at pair.com on a FreeBSD box.

Here's how its built with openssl and readline support on the FreeBSD box.

each project directory is in $HOME

in openssl-0.9.8d directory
./config --prefix=$HOME --openssldir=$HOME/openssl shared
make
make install

in readline-5.2 directory
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

in ruby-1.8.5 directory
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

As I said this works fine on FreeBSD and as long as I have these environment
set:
PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
I can run my copy of ruby with openssl support in cron jobs, etc.

However, when I go through the same steps on my Debian box ruby
1.8.5compiles and installs without any errors, but its missing the
openssl
support (and readline support)

Specifically on the FreeBSD the openssl library is installed in the standard
manner:
$HOME/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb
$HOME/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/*

but $HOME/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl* is missing on the Debian build.  Also cd-ing
into ext/openssl and doing a make install nets nothing:
cd ext/openssl/
make install
make: Nothing to be done for `install'.

Doing the above in the FreeBSD environment makes the openssl  library.

During configure and make nothing is mentioned about openssl either missing
or being broken when the ext directory is processed.  If someone knows how
to resolve this issue please let me know.  If you have any clues about where
I might poke around in the configure and make environments that would also
be helpful.  I have experience working with a make build environment so if
you have some pointers on where to look that would be great.  Seems like my
environment is missing some configure trigger around the Setup files in
ext.  Some have openssl and readline commented out (Setup, Setup.x68, etc.)
but I don't know their exact meaning or how they are created.

My gcc version is 4.1.2

Thanks!

(PS what happened at last night's meeting that everyone is crooning about?)

-- 
Mike Mondragon
http://mondragon.cc/