Apache Thrift 0.9.0 won't configure per instructions on base CentOS install. When you try to do the ./configure, it gives you an "Error: libcrypto required"
The documentation says that you need:
sudo yum install automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig gcc-c++ boost-devel libevent-devel zlib-devel python-devel ruby-devel
The documentation is missing the openssl dependency, you also need to include:
openssl-devel.x86_64 in your package install list above
What you really need to install is
sudo yum install automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig gcc-c++ boost-devel libevent-devel zlib-devel python-devel ruby-devel openssl-devel.x86_64
Or just this if you've already installed the above per the original instructions.
sudo yum install openssl-devel.x86_64