Bug 629982 – dev-libs/libevent-2.1.8[libressl,test]: undefined reference to `BIO_set_init' etc.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:13 UTC]

test/test_regress-regress_ssl.o: In function `bio_rwcount_new':
regress_ssl.c:(.text+0x939): undefined reference to `BIO_set_init'
regress_ssl.c:(.text+0x945): undefined reference to `BIO_set_data'
test/test_regress-regress_ssl.o: In function `bio_rwcount_ctrl':
regress_ssl.c:(.text+0x963): undefined reference to `BIO_get_shutdown'

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  This is an unstable amd64 chroot image at a tinderbox (==build bot)
  name: 13.0-desktop_libressl_20170903-100751

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gcc-config -l:
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 *

Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:
  [1]   python3.4
  [2]   python2.7 (fallback)




emerge -qpv dev-libs/libevent
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libevent-2.1.8  USE="libressl ssl {test} threads -debug -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)"

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:16 UTC]

Created attachment 492478 [details]
emerge-info.txt

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:19 UTC]

Created attachment 492480 [details]
dev-libs:libevent-2.1.8:20170905-005355.log

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:22 UTC]

Created attachment 492482 [details]
emerge-history.txt

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:26 UTC]

Created attachment 492484 [details]
environment

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:30 UTC]

Created attachment 492486 [details]
etc.portage.tbz2

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:33 UTC]

Created attachment 492488 [details]
logs.tbz2

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2017-09-05 17:04:36 UTC]

Created attachment 492490 [details]
temp.tbz2

[Comment 8 Michał Górny 2018-02-27 15:21:48 UTC]

The problem starts a bit earlier, with:

/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libevent-2.1.8/work/libevent-2.1.8-stable/bufferevent_openssl.c: In function 'bio_bufferevent_new':
/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libevent-2.1.8/work/libevent-2.1.8-stable/bufferevent_openssl.c:113:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'BIO_set_init' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  BIO_set_init(b, 0);
  ^

and likes indicating that libevent is calling functions that do not exist in libressl. Which means it can't work with libressl, it breaks all applications linking to it and the libressl flag on the package is an awful fake that can't work.

[Comment 9 Michał Górny 2018-02-27 15:21:59 UTC]

*** Bug 621314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Toralf Förster 2018-02-27 17:20:40 UTC]

Oop,s and I recently switched my KDE desktop to LibreSSL ...

[Comment 11 Stephan Lukasczyk 2018-03-22 17:20:26 UTC]

Do you have a solution for this problem? Besides migrating the system back from libressl to openssl? I would be interested in such a solution.

[Comment 12 Michał Górny 2018-03-22 17:36:30 UTC]

OpenBSD apparently is still at 2.0.22, so they don't have a patch.

[Comment 13 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2018-04-20 16:17:14 UTC]

runs and builds fine against dev-libs/libressl-{2.6.4, 2.7.2}

[Comment 14 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2018-04-30 00:52:46 UTC]

whoops

[Comment 15 Stefan Strogin 2019-02-16 19:00:47 UTC]

Builds fine with libressl-2.8.3 without the patch from the libressl overlay (https://github.com/gentoo/libressl/blob/master/dev-libs/libevent/files/libevent-2.1.8-libressl.patch)

Seems the problem is only with <libressl-2.7.0.

[Comment 16 Stefan Strogin 2019-02-21 17:58:00 UTC]

Oops, I see, forgot about USE=test.

Anyway the fix is applied in upstream: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/28b8075400c70b2d2da2ce07e590c2ec6d11783d
- got into 2.1.9_beta. Builds fine with USE=test and libressl-2.8.3.