[yocto] 'pod' problem building openssl 1.0.1g with latest daisy branch

[Alex J Lennon]

On 28/07/2014 11:34, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Monday 28 July 2014 11:19:25 Alex J Lennon wrote:
>> I pulled the latest daisy branch over the weekend and since am having
>> trouble building openssl 1.0.1g.
>>
>> I removed tmp and rebuilt just in case there was some issue there but
>> the problem remains.
>>
>> Conf:
>>
>> BB_VERSION        = "1.22.0"
>> BUILD_SYS         = "i686-linux"
>> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-14.04"
>> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
>> MACHINE           = "imx6qsabresd"
>> DISTRO            = "poky"
>> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.6.1"
>> TUNE_FEATURES     = "armv7a vfp neon cortexa9"
>> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
>> meta
>> meta-yocto        = "daisy:37532ceb19e08a44ef2a3c86e63ffb60ae8b8f5c"
>> meta-oe
>> meta-efl
>> meta-webserver
>> meta-networking   = "daisy:a6dcf6265822ca1484d991d10a3042e04a960cdb"
>> meta-fsl-arm      = "master:fc8bcfae0658375b1c241b6b9633b0c2dce6ac88"
>> meta-fsl-arm-extra = "master:9481991ec1f17bb2555a2a32d1680b1f743d7101"
>> meta-fsl-demos    = "master:27fdb2f2642ecd55d5633bde880dd4c37acd0d42"
>> meta-mono         = "master:74bd3be613ebb980e60e5b98814d4a4bd96a61e0"
>>
>> Layers:
>>
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/poky.daisy/meta \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/poky.daisy/meta-yocto \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded.daisy/meta-oe \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded.daisy/meta-efl \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded.daisy/meta-webserver \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded.daisy/meta-networking \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-arm \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-demos \
>> ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-mono \
>>
>> Failure seems related to corrupt 'pod' files
>>
>> | installing man1/ciphers.1ssl
>> | installing man1/cms.1ssl
>> | cms.pod around line 457: Expected text after =item, not a number
>> | cms.pod around line 461: Expected text after =item, not a number
>> | cms.pod around line 465: Expected text after =item, not a number
>> | cms.pod around line 470: Expected text after =item, not a number
>> | cms.pod around line 474: Expected text after =item, not a number
>> | POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 71.
>> | make: *** [install_docs] Error 255
>> | ERROR: oe_runmake failed
>>
>> I see from a little googling that there's recent (-ish) commentary on an
>> issue building these files with perl
>>
>> e.g.
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/454575/error-255-when-trying-to-install-opens
>> sl-1-0-1g-from-source
>>
>> I see my perl-native is 5.14.3 so not quite the same as the issue in the
>> link above.
>>
>> Can anybody comment on whether this is a known issue or somehow finger
>> trouble on my part?
> So, I think this is an issue with newer host Perl and OpenSSL 1.0.1g. This 
> looks like it might be the patch that fixes it:
>
> https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=23f5908ac753b176af2a0690e0ebb53c95ef192b
>
> If so we can apply this in daisy (master already has 1.0.1h which includes 
> this fix.)

I'll give this a quick test then shortly thanks Paul.

In the meantime I can also confirm that running make install_sw instead
of make install works as an interim - albeit inappropriate for Yocto - fix

ref: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/57

Cheers,

Alex