I'm trying to build a library self-consistent instance of openssl 1.0.2 on linux/64. Setting *FLAGS & rpath, although the openssl binary links correctly against its own {libcrypto,libssl}.so, the libssl.so links against *system*, not its own, libcrypto. I've tried a bunch of combinations of *FLAGS. Always the same result. The current env/result is: cd ./openssl-1.0.2 export SHARED_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/sslTEST/lib64 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/sslTEST/lib64 -lssl -lcrypto" export LDFLAGS=${SHARED_LDFLAGS} export LIBDEPS=${SHARED_LDFLAGS} ./config \ --openssldir=/usr/local/sslTEST \ --libdir=lib64 \ threads shared zlib \ enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 \ no-idea \ no-ssl2 \ no-rc5 \ no-mdc2 \ no-hw \ no-ec2m \ enable-rfc3779 make depend make make install There are no apparent errors in the build output. The build results in /usr/local/sslTEST/bin/openssl version OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015 ldd \ /usr/local/sslTEST/bin/openssl \ /usr/local/sslTEST/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0 \ /usr/local/sslTEST/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 /usr/local/sslTEST/bin/openssl: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffefffd7000) libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/local/sslTEST/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f93cbe0e000) !! libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/local/sslTEST/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f93cb9ce000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f93cb77f000) libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f93cb569000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f93cb1c1000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f93cc07a000) /usr/local/sslTEST/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd01636000) !! libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007ff4abf33000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff4abd2f000) libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff4abb18000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff4ab771000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff4ac60d000) /usr/local/sslTEST/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe1f55d000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9a10f46000) libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f9a10d30000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9a10988000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9a115d5000) where you can see the different libcrypto's are linked. Wht specific combination and settings of FLAGS are required to ensure that the bins & libs are all self-consistently linked/rpath'd only against this build's libs?