No, it wasn't there, because I hadn't included --with-openssl in the configure. Looking at my history, I had done that once earlier but dropped it for the reason noted below. Including --with-openssl does include the crypto library, but if I don't do a 'make clean' before doing a make, I get errors when compiling postgresql. Apparently is it always a good idea to do make clean when reconfiguring postgresql. (Could configure do a 'make clean'?) Anyway, everything's apparently working now. -- Mike Nolan