Re: testing OpenSSL 1.1.0 on jessie

[Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>]

Daniel Pocock wrote:
> I wanted to try compiling some upstream projects against OpenSSL 1.1.0
> on jessie, without installing the package though. I tried the following:
>
> dget -x http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/openssl/openssl_1.1.0c-1.dsc
>
> cd openssl-1.1.0c/
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -j13
>
> and it builds but only 4 of the headers appear to install:

Start over from scratch with -j1.  Seriously.  I haven't tested 1.1.0,
but the last time I built OpenSSL its makefiles were
_catastrophically_ broken with any amount of parallelism.  You
probably didn't even get a complete build, and the source code may
have been damaged.

zw