"Roth, Gabrielle" <gabrielle(dot)roth(at)xo(dot)com> writes:
> The strange thing to me is that I didn't have to do anything extra for
> the 7.4 install, it "just worked."
7.4 and earlier configure scripts used to have a special case to
automatically handle the situation where openssl is under /usr/local/ssl.
We don't anymore; you have to say so if it's in any nonstandard location.
I'm not sure what the rationale was for that change, but it was
intentional...
regards, tom lane