Do not implicitly load the zlib support if OPENSSL_NO_DEFAULT_ZLIB is set. diff -up openssl-0.9.8j/ssl/ssl_ciph.c.env-nozlib openssl-0.9.8j/ssl/ssl_ciph.c --- openssl-0.9.8j/ssl/ssl_ciph.c.env-nozlib 2009-01-05 15:43:07.000000000 +0100 +++ openssl-0.9.8j/ssl/ssl_ciph.c 2009-01-14 17:47:46.000000000 +0100 @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static void load_builtin_compressions(vo MemCheck_off(); ssl_comp_methods=sk_SSL_COMP_new(sk_comp_cmp); - if (ssl_comp_methods != NULL) + if (ssl_comp_methods != NULL && getenv("OPENSSL_NO_DEFAULT_ZLIB") == NULL) { comp=(SSL_COMP *)OPENSSL_malloc(sizeof(SSL_COMP)); if (comp != NULL)