Unix and Linux builds have problems when the path includes spaces. In-tree is witnessing the issue, and out-of-tree may experience the issue.
This problem was observed on Windows due to "C:\Program Files" and "C:\Documents and Settings"; see Issues 4486 and 4490. Windows uses UAC, which means make usually does not fails and it sprays the errant directories onto the filesystem. Conventional wisdom is to "don't use spaces"; however, it does not apply to Windows so the problem may as well be completely remediated since it has to be fixed under Windows. To duplicate: cd /tmp git clone git://git.openssl.org/openssl.git "openssl workspace" cd "openssl workspace" ./config You should encounter paths like the following on the command lines. Notice the include options have "-I../openssl -Iworkspace/include -I. -Icrypto/include -Iinclude -Icrypto/bn/workspace/crypto/include". cc -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DOPENSSL_THREADS -DOPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM -DPOLY1305_ASM -DOPENSSLDIR="\"/usr/local/ssl\"" -DENGINESDIR="\"/usr/local/lib/engines\"" -O3 -D_REENTRANT -arch x86_64 -DL_ENDIAN -Wall -fPIC -I../openssl -Iworkspace/include -I. -Icrypto/include -Iinclude -Icrypto/bn/workspace/crypto/include -MMD -MF crypto/aes/aes-x86_64.d.tmp -MT crypto/aes/aes-x86_64.o -c -o crypto/aes/aes-x86_64.o crypto/aes/aes-x86_64.s ... *********** I see where some of the potential problems are. I just don't have the requisite Perl experience to remediate them and offer a patch. Some other places are where $bilddir, $srcdir and $args{incs} are used. openssl workspace$ grep -R "\-I" * | egrep -iv 'makefile|\.conf|\.h|\.c|\.txt|\.pod|//test|test\.pl' Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl: staging_instdir = staging_instdir - "]A.;" + ".OPENSSL-INSTALL]" Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl: staging_instdir = staging_instdir - "A.;" + "[OPENSSL-INSTALL]" Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl: $(PERL) "-I." "-Mvmsconfig" {- sourcefile("util", "dofile.pl") -} - Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl: $(PERL) "-I." "-Mvmsconfig" {- sourcefile("util", "dofile.pl") -} - Configurations/descrip.mms.tmpl: \$(PERL) "-I\$(BUILDDIR)" "-Mconfigdata" $dofile - Configure: $withargs{zlib_include}="-I$1"; Configure: my $cmd = "$config{perl} \"-I.\" \"-Mconfigdata\" $dofile -o\"Configure\" \"".join("\" \"",@templates)."\" > \"$out.new\""; ... test/run_tests.pl:$switches = "-w \"-I$testlib\" \"-I$utillib\""; -- Ticket here: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4492 Please log in as guest with password guest if prompted -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev