[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4425] CentOS 5: mkdir /include: Permission denied at ./Configure line 1248

Richard Levitte via RT rt at openssl.org
Sun Mar 13 23:56:21 UTC 2016


Vid Sun, 13 Mar 2016 kl. 23.16.45, skrev noloader at gmail.com:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Richard Levitte via RT
> <rt at openssl.org> wrote:
> > Vid Sun, 13 Mar 2016 kl. 22.05.21, skrev noloader at gmail.com:
> >> $ perl --version
> >> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> >
> > This is a problem. We don't really support perl older than 5.10, so
> > 5.8.x is
> > potentially challenging. It's quite possible you found a problem
> > area.
> >
> > As far as I understand the issue, it seems that the File::Spec perl
> > module
> > might be a bit dicy and could use an upgrade. If it was me, I'd
> > upgrade Perl.
> >
>
> I don't have any PERL-fu, so forgive my ignorance here... At the
> moment, I only see that one failure, so it may not be as bad as it
> appears.
>
> Before this executes:
>
> $dir = catdir($base,$dir) unless isabsolute($dir);
>
> It seems $base is <empty>. Would it be possible to fallback to $PWD if
> $base is <empty>? Does it make sense for $base to be empty?

Kinda sorta makes sense. That would be if 'dirname' misbehaves, i.e. gives back
'' in some cases.

Would you please test the attached patch, see if that makes a difference?

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Richard Levitte
levitte at openssl.org

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