Compilie ruby 1.8.6 with openssl 0.9.8

Question

I'm trying to install ruby 1.8.6 on CentOS7 and successfully finished, but ruby cannot load openssl.

My install steps are below.

Install openssl 0.9.8 from source.

wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8zb.tar.gz
tar xzf openssl-0.9.8zb.tar.gz
cd openssl-0.9.8zb
./config --prefix=/usr/local shared
make && make install
openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zb 6 Aug 2014
cd

Install ruby 1.8.6 from source.

# Fix timeout.rb:59: [BUG] Segmentation fault
export CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-tree-dce -fno-optimize-sibling-calls"

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p420.tar.gz
tar xvfvz ruby-1.8.6-p420.tar.gz 
cd ruby-1.8.6-p420
./configure
make && make install
ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2010-09-02 patchlevel 420) [x86_64-linux]
cd

These steps are finished without error, but ruby cannot load openssl.

irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'openssl'
LoadError: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/openssl.so
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/openssl.so
    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:17
    from (irb):1:in `require'
    from (irb):1

The error shows that cannot open 'openssl.so' but the file exists at /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/openssl.so.

ls /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/openssl.so
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/openssl.so

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I solved the problem myself. Here is what I did.

# cd to openssl directory in ruby source directory
cd ruby-1.8.6-p420/ext/openssl
ruby extconf.rb
make && make install