Look for libssl.so in your system and make sure the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains the path to that file, at least that's what I would try.
Hope this helps,
/B
I tried LD_LIBRARY_PATH (because that seemed easiest):
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib # make clean # make OPENSSL=/usr/local/src/openssl-0.9.6c
I get the same error.
So it looks to me like the best route is going to be to download more current OPENSSL source code and link against that. Ug.