[SOLVED] Re: Tor fails to build connections after FreeBSD security update

[Scott Bennett]

     On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:04:02 -0600 (CST) I wrote:
>     I wrote:
>>     On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:13:14 +0100 Hans Schnehl <torvallenator at gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>>On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:37:51AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>>>      Hmm.  I have 0.9.8l installed, too, but I guess I don't know which
>>>> version (i.e., base system vs. port) the build procedure for tor links in.
>>>
>>    [Much stuff deleted  --SB]
>>>
>>>I added  'WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=YES' to /etc/make.conf and let FreeBSD do the
>>>rest with 'make install clean' in the tor-devel directory.
>>>
>>>Out comes a perfectly compiled binary doing what it is supposed to.
>>>
      [More stuff deleted  --SB]
>>
>>What, exactly, does the ports subsystem do to make tor build using the openssl
>>port?
>>     Any helpful suggestions, other than to build tor from the tor-devel port,
>>which I have no intention of doing, would be greatly appreciated.  In the
>>meantime, I no longer have a working tor. :---*(
>>
>     Never mind. :-)
>     I did play with the security/tor-devel port, but didn't install it.
>Looking at the output, I noticed that the link edit of tor had a
>"-rpath=/usr/local/lib" on the gcc command that I didn't have in mine.

     I made a crucial typo below.

>Adding 'LDFLAGS="-rpath-/usr/local/lib"' to the ./configure took care of the
                        ^ should be equal sign '='
>problem.  0.2.2.6-alpha is running properly now. :-)
>     Thanks, Hans, for the clues that were indeed in your message.  I just
>was a bit slow on the uptake.
>
>
                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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