I am re-posting this (and another) message to the list as I was having email issues with the list and I posted an erroneous subject line, which may have deterred responses. I have another question that was encountered at the same time as my previous one, but I believe it is two separate issues, so I created a different thread. When building 1.0.2g and attempting to remove some ciphers at build time ("no-idea"), I discovered that the Make scripting was attempting to build some of its files anyway: [...] gcc -I.. -I../.. -I../modes -I../asn1 -I../evp -I../../include -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -std=gnu99 -Wa,--noexecstack -fomit-frame-pointer -DTERMIO -DPURIFY -DSSL_FORBID_ENULL -D_GNU_SOURCE -fstack-protector -Wall -Wa,--noexecstack -m64 -DL_ENDIAN -O3 -Wall -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -I/usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0/include -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM -c -o e_bf.o e_bf.c make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../include/openssl/idea.h', needed by `e_idea.o'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/openssl-1.0.2g/crypto/evp' make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/openssl-1.0.2g/crypto' make: *** [build_crypto] Error 1 It looks as though the "no-idea" removes some of the header files from the build, but then the make tries to compile the .c files anyway. Has anyone else encountered this problem?