OpenSSL version 3.0.0-alpha1 build failed

[Matt Caswell]

On 30/04/2020 22:44, Matt Caswell wrote:
> This appears to be a bug in perl. You have a very old version of perl
> (the oldest we support is 5.10.0). It's probably worth trying to upgrade it.

I've seen a very similar (but not quite the same) crash in an older
version of perl on a different platform.

Please see the workaround procedure I've documented here:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/11694

Please could you try this out and let me know if it works?

Thanks

Matt


> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> On 30/04/2020 22:12, Ken Goldman wrote:
>> My build failed with the below.
>>
>> x86_64 Linux kernel 2.6.32
>> RHEL 6.7
>> Perl 5.10.1
>>
>> Everything through 1.1.1e was successful.
>>
>> ~~
>>
>>
>> ./config
>> Operating system: x86_64-whatever-linux2
>> Configuring OpenSSL version 3.0.0-alpha1 for target linux-x86_64
>> Using os-specific seed configuration
>> *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption (out):
>> 0x0000000002a401e0 ***
>> ======= Backtrace: =========
>> /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3c2fa75dee]
>> /lib64/libc.so.6[0x3c2fa78c80]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_sv_clear+0x6a5)[0x3c35ab93c5]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_sv_free2+0x52)[0x3c35ab95d2]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_av_undef+0x58)[0x3c35aa4018]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_sv_clear+0x598)[0x3c35ab92b8]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_sv_free2+0x52)[0x3c35ab95d2]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_sv_clear+0x47c)[0x3c35ab919c]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_sv_free2+0x52)[0x3c35ab95d2]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_hv_free_ent+0x42)[0x3c35a9e8c2]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so[0x3c35a9fde1]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_hv_clear+0xfa)[0x3c35a9ffea]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_leave_scope+0xea8)[0x3c35ad6258]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_pp_unstack+0x59)[0x3c35aa8419]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(Perl_runops_standard+0x16)[0x3c35aa4b06]
>> /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so(perl_run+0x338)[0x3c35a4d0d8]
>> /usr/bin/perl(main+0x154)[0x400e74]
>> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x3c2fa1ed1d]
>> [snipped]
>>