[Net-ssleay-devel] 1.38 broken

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:51:06AM +1000, Mike McCauley wrote:
> Florian,
> do you have any input on this?
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> On Wednesday 21 September 2011 08:46:37 am Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 07:10:47AM +1000, Mike McCauley wrote:
> > > Are you able to build Net-SSLeay with the resulting Makefile?
> >
> > Yes. But, if OpenSSL is located outside of /usr, you won't be able to.
> > For example, the following fails:
> >   $ OPENSSL_PREFIX=/opt/libopenssl10 perl Makefile.PL

BTW, fails meaning Perl won't embed /opt/libopenssl10/lib in the
RPATH. The LIBS line at the head of Makefile is obviously wrong. The
last working version is 1.36 but 1.37 and 1.38 fail the same way.

> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 02:47:22 am Albert Chin wrote:
> > > > On a RHEL6 system, or any other system, Net-SSLeay-1.38 appears to be
> > > > broken:
> > > >   $ tar zxf Net-SSLeay-1.38.tar.gz
> > > >   $ cd Net-SSLeay-1.38
> > > >   $ perl Makefile.PL
> > > > Cannot determine perl version info from lib/Net/SSLeay.pm
> > > > Cannot determine license info from lib/Net/SSLeay.pm
> > > > *** Found OpenSSL-1.0.0 installed in /usr
> > > > *** Be sure to use the same compiler and options to compile your
> > > > OpenSSL, perl, and Net::SSLeay. Mixing and matching compilers is not
> > > > supported. Do you want to run external tests?
> > > > These tests *will* *fail* if you do not have network connectivity. [n]
> > > > n Checking if your kit is complete...
> > > > Looks good
> > > > Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: 'ARRAY(0x9996170)'
> > > > Writing Makefile for Net::SSLeay
> > > >
> > > > Notice the "Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: 'ARRAY(0x9996170)'"
> > > > error. I'm attaching the generated Makefile.
> > > >
> > > > The problem has to do with how LIBS is constructed. If you look at the
> > > > Makefile, you'll see:
> > > >   LIBS => [q[-L/usr -L/usr/lib -L/usr/out32dll], q[ARRAY(...) -lssl
> > > > -lcrypto -lz]]
> > >
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> Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
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> Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
> TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
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