So here we are again…Trying to patch eggdrop with ssl, but as expected, i run into annoying problems, which most likely is caused by me not reading the instructions properly(or reading at all)

OpenSSL is installed, its there..its working…finally i come the conclusion that its probably the -dev files which is needed. Now, i expect it to be called something like “ssh-dev,openssl-dev” or something easy and similar………..and I’m wrong again.

apt-cache search openssl dev

is so friendly to tell me that what I’m most likely looking for is

libssl-dev – SSL development libraries, header files and documentation

so after installing it, everything runs smooth yet again…. now i can only wait for the next annoying thing to come and bite my large ass

So your trying to compile som random stuff (in my cause eggdrop) and ./configure yells at me ->

checking for C compiler default output file name.. configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

gcc is fully installed as expected, but after a small google search, and help from apt-cache search, it looks like we need

apt-get install libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libc6 libc6-dev

horay, problem solved, (was probably mentioned in the readme/install file which i as usual never get to read)