> I'm not sure why, but ld just doesn't pickup the 64bit openssl shared > lib unless the openssl-powerpc64 package is installed. openssl-solibs lacks libcrypto.a and libssl.a . In a normal (non-biarch) world you wouldn't even be able to compile ssl software (= compiling would fail because ld is called) with just having the solibs package installed because gcc will fail to find required headers :-) -- A. Top posters Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?