Hi folks!
The configuration and installation process of the new OpenSSL 0.9.6f
package is broken in several places. Same problems on Linux and
Solaris. The package cannot be installed properly.
1. The "config" scripts wants to set the variable "GCCVER".
It expects a fixed output format like "2.95", but the "egcs"
series of GCC (which is still in use on a number of systems)
returns something like "egcs-2.91.1" for "gcc --version" or
"gcc -dumpversion".
The "sed" call cannot handle the leading "egcs-", and that
breaks further checks that use GCCVER. Especially the two
checks "$GCCVER -lt 28" fail with a noticable error message.
This bug already exists for some time. But obviously, no
user ever watched the output of the "config" script. ;-)
2. The "Makefile" contains a syntax error in the "install_docs:"
section so that "make install" won't work.
The line
@for i in doc/crypto/*.pod doc/ssl/*.pod; do \
is wrong and should read
for i in doc/crypto/*.pod doc/ssl/*.pod; do \
instead. The "@" at the beginning of the line must be removed
as the two "for" loops are no longer separate commands but are
one virtual long command line. (You changed that between 0.9.6e
and 0.9.6f.)
3. The "Makefile" contains another error which may result in a lot
of error messages from (the wrong version of) "pod2man".
The following line
@pod2man=`cd ../../util; ./pod2mantest ignore`; \
is wrong and should read
@pod2man=`cd util; ./pod2mantest ignore`; \
instead. You changed the installation process between
0.9.6e and 0.9.6f, and now you're in a different directory.
4. The "Makefile" contains another error which prevents the
correct installation of shared libraries.
At the end of the "install:" section, the following line
$(MAKE) -f $$here/Makefile link-shared ); \
should read
make -f $$here/Makefile link-shared ); \
instead. This is yet another change between 0.9.6e and 0.9.6f.
The variable "MAKE" contains "make -f Makefile.ssl" which
results in "make -f Makefile.ssl -f $$here/Makefile link-shared",
and this is obviously not a good idea. ;-)
Currently, the installation process simply fails if shared
libraries are enabled.
Greetings, Andreas
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