I seem to be having some build problems. I'll describe what's happening below. I'm trying to install openssl 0.9.8 onto OS X 10.4.1. I have the Xcode 2.1 tools installed.
Firstly, I downloaded the tarball using "curl" to make sure that Safari wasn't causing me any grief. The installed curl is 7.13.1. Second, I verified the MD5 checksum and confirmed that it's the same as reported on the web site (9da21071596a124acde6080552deac16). While untarring the file, I received the following notice: tar: "A lone zero block at 31800". The version of tar supplied with OS X is GNU tar (1.14). I then performed the "./config shared" which seemed to be okay. "make" and "make test" performed without any errors. During "make install" however, the installation bombed while installing "engines". I've attached a typescript of the session.
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