A patch to compile Python 2.6 in a 64-bit Linux distribution with a custom OpenSSL version

python-2.6.9.patch

--- a/setup.py	2013-10-29 16:04:39.000000000 +0100
+++ b/setup.py	2017-12-14 12:30:22.280645847 +0100
@@ -137,6 +137,20 @@
         log.info("WARNING: multiple copies of %s found"%module)
     return os.path.join(list[0], module)
 
+def find_compiler_search_dirs(compiler):
+    child = os.popen('%s -Xlinker --verbose 2>&1' % (compiler,))
+
+    for line in child.read().split('\n'):
+        if line.find('SEARCH') < 0:
+            continue
+        for dir in line.split(';'):
+            p = dir.find('(')
+            q = dir.rfind(')')
+            if p >= 0 and p < q:
+                yield dir[p + 3:q - 1]
+
+    child.close()
+
 class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
 
     def __init__(self, dist):
@@ -355,9 +369,8 @@
         return sys.platform
 
     def detect_modules(self):
-        # Ensure that /usr/local is always used
-        add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.library_dirs, '/usr/local/lib')
-        add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.include_dirs, '/usr/local/include')
+        for dir in find_compiler_search_dirs(self.compiler.compiler[0]):
+            add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.library_dirs, dir)
 
         # Add paths specified in the environment variables LDFLAGS and
         # CPPFLAGS for header and library files.
--- a/Modules/Setup.dist	2013-10-29 16:04:38.000000000 +0100
+++ b/Modules/Setup.dist	2017-12-14 14:09:03.496776308 +0100
@@ -207,14 +207,17 @@
 #_csv _csv.c
 
 # Socket module helper for socket(2)
-#_socket socketmodule.c
+_socket socketmodule.c
 
 # Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
 # socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
-#SSL=/usr/local/ssl
-#_ssl _ssl.c \
-#	-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-#	-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
+SSL=/home/romulo/opt/openssl/openssl-0.9.8zh
+_ssl _ssl.c \
+	-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
+	-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto -Wl,-rpath,$(SSL)/lib
+_hashlib _hashopenssl.c \
+	-I$(SSL)/include \
+	-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto -Wl,-rpath,$(SSL)/lib
 
 # The crypt module is now disabled by default because it breaks builds
 # on many systems (where -lcrypt is needed), e.g. Linux (I believe).