OpenSSL 3.0.7 make failure on Debian 10 (buster)

Michael Wojcik Michael.Wojcik at microfocus.com
Fri Nov 4 13:14:19 UTC 2022


> From: openssl-users <openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org> On Behalf Of Matt
> Caswell
> Sent: Friday, 4 November, 2022 06:43
> 
> This looks like something environmental rather than a problem with
> OpenSSL itself. /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/include-fixed/limits.h
> is clearly a system include file, trying to include some other system
> include file ("recurse down to the real one") which it is failing to find.

Specifically, limits.h is part of the C standard library (see e.g. ISO 9899:1999 7.10). This is a GCC issue; there's something wrong with John's GCC installation, or how his environment configures it.

GCC often appears to have adopted "too clever by half" as a design goal.

-- 
Michael Wojcik


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