"Randal T. Rioux" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > checking checking blah blah <snipped>.... > checking test program... failed > configure: error: > Could not execute a simple test program. This may be a problem > related to locating shared libraries. Check the file 'config.log' > for the exact reason. > The most glaring error in config.log shows this: You're looking at the wrong thing --- library-not-found errors are completely expected in config.log, because it has to find out what libraries are present. The actual failure is down here: configure:19839: checking test program configure:19854: gcc -o conftest -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -I/usr/local/ssl/include -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9 conftest.c -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lrt -lsocket -lm >&5 configure:19857: $? = 0 configure:19859: ./conftest ld.so.1: conftest: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory ./configure: line 19860: 20583 Killed ./conftest$ac_exeext configure:19862: $? = 137 configure: program exited with status 137 Since you say this doesn't happen when SSL support isn't requested, I suppose that the problem has to do with libssl.so attempting to reference libgcc_s.so. Beyond that, hard to say, but I bet there is an rpath problem at the bottom of it. regards, tom lane