Debian's reproducible-builds machinery has discovered a problem in the
SSL tests: When building with SSL support, but /usr/bin/openssl
missing (i.e "libssl-dev" installed, but "openssl" missing), the tests
fail in subtle ways:
checking for openssl... no
configure: using openssl: openssl not found
checking for openssl/ssl.h... yes
checking for openssl/err.h... yes
build/src/test/ssl/tmp_check/log/regress_log_001_ssltests:
Can't exec "x509": No such file or directory at t/001_ssltests.pl line 751.
couldn't run " x509" to get client cert serialno at t/001_ssltests.pl line 775.
build/src/test/ssl/tmp_check/log/regress_log_003_sslinfo:
[08:42:02.209](0.029s) ok 11 - ssl_client_serial() compared with pg_stat_ssl
psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR: invalid X.509 field name: "invalid"
[08:42:02.238](0.029s) ok 12 - ssl_client_dn_field() for an invalid field
Full build log: https://reproduce.debian.net/amd64-pull184/api/v1/builds/66623/log
The problem does not show up on the normal Debian build daemons. While
the build environment there is fairly minimal, it does have "openssl"
preinstalled. So I cannot yet say if this problem is new in PG18, or
just never got detected in older branches.
While it is probably possible to skip the tests when the configure
probe did not find the openssl binary, IMHO the configure check should
already fail. That's more robust and easier.
Attached is a WIP patch that implements that for autoconf.
Christoph
