getting and compiling source for things like openssl and opentsa

[Paul Howarth]

Joel wrote:
> I found some seed tarballs somewhere on the fedora pages, 
> 
>     cvs-core-devel-20050127.tar.gz
>     cvs-extras-devel-20050127.tar.gz
> 
> untarred them in /opt/rhcvs, and tried several versions of make in
> /opt/rhcvs/devel/openssl . make just gives me errors.
> 
> For instance, I need a look at the sources, so I tried "make sources"
> and curl says
> 
>     curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404

This looks like "curl" has been invoked to download something from a 
website but got a 404 error (file not found).

>     make: ***[libica-1.3.5.tar.gz] Error 22

Maybe that's what it was trying to download. Is there any reference to 
the build process requiring this in a README or INSTALL file?

You probably need to sort out why this is happening before going further.

Paul.