Installing Ruby 2.1.2 w/ OpenSSL 1.0.1h

!instructions.md

1. Download & extract openssl-1.0.1h

cd ~/src
wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1h.tar.gz
tar -xzvf openssl-1.0.1h.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.1h

2. Configure OpenSSL

./config --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl shared zlib-dynamic

NOTE: --openssldir option is optional. Default is /usr/local/ssl which works just fine

3. Make and install OpenSSL

make
make test
sudo make install

4. Download & extract ruby-2.1.2

cd ~/src
wget http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz
cd ruby-2.1.2

5. Configure Ruby

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/openssl/lib
./configure --prefix=/opt/rubies/ruby-2.1.2 --enable-shared --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/openssl

6. Make and install Ruby

make
make test
sudo make install

7. Profit 💸

errors.txt

You know, for the google

libcrypto.a(x86_64-gcc.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

ssl/lib/libcrypto.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [../../../.ext/x86_64-linux/digest/md5.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ruby-2.1.2/ext/digest/md5'

openssl_missing.h:71: error: conflicting types for ‘HMAC_CTX_copy’