Thanks for the reply and I may be getting closer to the answer. One of the steps you listed was to do a "make depend" usually did a "make clean" but, i suppose, i should get the "make depend" working. Using the commands you have posted the make depend fails to find the "fips.h" file. I see it in the /usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0/include directory and I have tried "export FIPSDIR=/usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0" but it still does not pick it up. Is there an environment variable that I am missing? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://openssl.6102.n7.nabble.com/Building-OpenSSL-with-FIPS-crypto-Module-Linker-forking-too-many-processes-tp58444p58544.html Sent from the OpenSSL - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.