more info. src/or/test PASSES under the conditions below. /usr/local happens to be a managed symlink farm, in case you're wondering about zlib123. still don't know how to resolve this during build without LD_LIBRARY_PATH though.
## ktrace accesses during build # configure 84749 cpp0 NAMI "/usr/local/include/zlib.h" 84765 cpp0 NAMI "/usr/local/include/zlib.h" # make 87693 cpp0 NAMI "zlib.h" 87693 cpp0 NAMI "../../zlib.h" 87693 cpp0 NAMI "/usr/local/include/zlib.h" 88263 ld NAMI "/usr/local/lib/libz.so" 88292 ld NAMI "/usr/local/lib/libz.so" # ldconfig -r | egrep 'libz' 41:-lz.2 => /usr/lib/libz.so.2 200:-lz.1 => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 ldconfig -r | egrep 'ssl|crypto' 52:-lcrypto.3 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3 53:-lssl.3 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.3 ldconfig -r | egrep 'event' 115:-levent-1.3e.1 => /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.3e.so.1 ### setting preference to library path ## ldd /usr/local/bin/tor /usr/local/bin/tor: libz.so => /usr/lib/libz.so (0x28105000) libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x28112000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x2814d000) libevent-1.3e.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.3e.so.1 (0x2827a000) libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x2828e000) ## LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ldd /usr/local/bin/tor /usr/local/bin/tor: libz.so => /usr/local/zlib123/lib/libz.so (0x28105000) libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x28117000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x28152000) libevent-1.3e.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.3e.so.1 (0x2827f000) libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x28293000) ## LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ldd src/or/test src/or/test: libz.so => /usr/local/zlib123/lib/libz.so (0x28119000) libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x2812b000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x28166000) libevent-1.3e.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libevent-1.3e.so.1 (0x28293000) libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x282a7000) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com