Hi Thibaut, there must be something else in your environment: I chmod’ed my /tmp to 770, added a new user, checked that we cannot access /tmp, and successfully compiled openssl-1.1.1h on a test machine. The reason could lie somewhere else than /tmp.
> Am 28.10.2020 um 13:13 schrieb Thibaut Appel <t.appe...@imperial.ac.uk>: > > 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: >> >> This email from r...@c-works.net <mailto:r...@c-works.net> originates from >> outside Imperial. Do not click on links and attachments unless you recognise >> the sender. If you trust the sender, add them to your safe senders list >> <https://spam.ic.ac.uk/SpamConsole/Senders.aspx> to disable email stamping >> for this address. >> >> 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.appe...@imperial.ac.uk >>> <mailto:t.appe...@imperial.ac.uk>>: >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>
