emerge openssh fails on new installation

[cmaurand]

First for some reason every time I merge a package the system wanted to clobber a bunch of things leaving it in a state that was unusable. emerge --regen didn't seem to fix the problem that seems to exist between the stage 3 tarball and the portage snapshot. I had to re-emerge packages manually. And it still wants to clopper open ssh. However when I try to emerge openssh, I get:

configure: error: *** Can't find recent OpenSSL libcrypto (see config.log for details) ***

!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/openssh-4.4_p1-r6/work/openssh-4.4p1/config.log

!!! ERROR: net-misc/openssh-4.4_p1-r6 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile
openssh-4.4_p1-r6.ebuild, line 117: Called econf '--with-ldflags=' '--disable-strip' '--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib64/misc' '--datadir=/usr/share/openssh' '--disable-suid-ssh' '--with-privsep-path=/var/empty' '--with-privsep-user=sshd' '--with-md5-passwords' '--without-ldap' '--without-libedit' '--without-kerberos5' '--with-tcp-wrappers' '--without-selinux' '--without-skey' '--without-opensc' '--with-pam'
ebuild.sh, line 540: Called die

/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 and libcrypto.so.0.9.8 are there. libcrypto.so is linked to libcrypto.so.9.8 and libcrypto.so.0 is linked to libcrypto.so.0.9.8

I have openssl installed and its "openssl-0.9.8d"

I'm trying to install openssh-4.4_p1-r6

What gives? Its not supposed to be this hard folks.
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[Arfrever]

Give the outputs of:

[iluxa]

Dropt that config.log file somewhere where we can see it please.
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[Cyxua]

i have the exact same problem as the starter of the topic, i've put up my config log from openssh here

[iluxa]

This is rather strange. It does find openssl libraries, but it can't find RAND_add() symbol in there.
My version of openssl does have that symbol in libcrypto.

Two guesses:
First guess is 0.9.7 vs. 0.9.8 messup
To fix that do
revdep-rebuild --library=libcrypto.so.0.9.7
rm /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7

Then try to re-emerge openssh again.

Another guess is that you have some libcrypto from another package (Kerberos5?)
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[Cyxua]

aperently my problem was located a bit unexpected, seems like somehow my pkgconfig package had gone foobar, after re-emerging pkgconfig, openssh found my openssl libraries just fine

[jm009]

I also had the error

configure: error: *** Can't find recent OpenSSL libcrypto (see config.log for details) ***

The problem did not not appear with USE="-ldap"