Greetings,
First let me thank you for your wonderful product openssl. It works great and I am very thankful it is out there. I have found a small conflict in more recent version of the config or Configure script for version 0.9.c back through 0.9.5 that if $PERL is defined as anything but the binary location for perl the configure script will fail with a message: permission defined to /var/local/bin (or I guess whatever the path that $PERL is defined as).
Personally I have $PERL defined as the source of perl and the place where I put new modules. I would think that your script should at least check if $PERL is defined to see if the path it is pointing to is a binary or not – it will try to use it as a binary executable even if it points to a directory! Not a good idea. Perhaps if $PERL is defined you could either prompt to see if it is the correct value, test to see if it is the correct value or unset and set it again before your configure scripts exit.
It is a very small problem but I expect it could confuse some newer user users.
Thanks,
john
