Re: make install fails as it tries to write in /tmp

[Thibaut Appel <t.appel17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Harald,

Thank you for your answer.

In fact my environment variable TMPDIR was already set to an appropriate folder, in my bash environment.

Did you mean it is meant to be set somewhere else at build or install time?

Output of perl --version gives me: This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

I did try to change the hard-coded '/tmp' occurences in unix-Makefile.tmpl to the said folder, and it gave me something like:

ar: /my/dir/lib/libcrypto.so: file format not recognized

Is there anything else I can try?

Thibaut

On 28/10/2020 13:00, Harald Koch wrote:

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Hello Thibaut,

I assume due to the name prefix „ar“ that an archive wants to be created via program „ar“. According to its man page, you can set the environment variable TMPDIR to your required value. Try this.

(from „man ar“):

ENVIRONMENT

     TMPDIR  The pathname of the directory to use when creating temporary files.

Regards,

Harald

Am 28.10.2020 um 09:48 schrieb Thibaut Appel <t.appel17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Dear OpenSSL users,

I uncovered a potential issue affecting the installation of OpenSSL from source, in the case the user is not allowed to write in the /tmp folder.

I'm trying to install on a cluster where permissions to '/tmp' is restricted.

Is there an environment variable designed to tell 'make install' to NOT use /tmp?

My $TMP environment variable points to a different folder. The result of:

./config --prefix=/rds/general/user/home/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1h
make && make install

install libcrypto.a -> /rds/general/user/home/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1h/lib/libcrypto.a
install libssl.a -> /rds/general/user/home/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1h/lib/libssl.a
link /rds/general/user/home/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1h/lib/libcrypto.so -> /rds/general/user/home/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1h/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
install libcrypto.so -> /rds/general/user/home/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1h/lib/libcrypto.so
install libcrypto.so.1.1 -> /rds/general/user/home/.linuxbrew/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1h/lib/libcrypto.so
mkdir: cannot create directory '/tmp/ar.12361': Permission denied
make: *** [install_dev] Error 1

Is there something I'm missing? How can this be circumvented?

Thanks,

Thibaut