diff -urN mysql-4.0.9-gamma.org/acinclude.m4 mysql-4.0.9-gamma/acinclude.m4
--- mysql-4.0.9-gamma.org/acinclude.m4	Mon Feb  3 23:34:15 2003
+++ mysql-4.0.9-gamma/acinclude.m4	Tue Feb  4 00:11:55 2003
@@ -715,6 +715,9 @@
   if test -f $d/libssl.a ; then
     OPENSSL_LIB=$d
   fi
+  if test -f $d/libssl.so ; then
+    OPENSSL_LIB=$d
+  fi
  done
 
  if test -z "$OPENSSL_LIB" -o -z "$OPENSSL_INCLUDE" ; then