Netdata: Compilation error when two versions of OpenSSL exist

[mickae1]

/tmp/cci8PHJ5.ltrans3.ltrans.o: In function `security_openssl_library':
/Distrib/project/netdata/netdata-kickstart-ISnZWx/netdata-v1.17.1/libnetdata/socket/security.c:46: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_ssl'
/tmp/cci8PHJ5.ltrans2.ltrans.o: In function `security_process_accept':
/Distrib/project/netdata/netdata-kickstart-ISnZWx/netdata-v1.17.1/libnetdata/socket/security.c:265: undefined reference to `SSL_is_init_finished'
/tmp/cci8PHJ5.ltrans2.ltrans.o: In function `security_initialize_openssl_client.lto_priv.210':
/Distrib/project/netdata/netdata-kickstart-ISnZWx/netdata-v1.17.1/libnetdata/socket/security.c:92: undefined reference to `TLS_client_method'
/tmp/cci8PHJ5.ltrans13.ltrans.o: In function `security_initialize_openssl_server':
/Distrib/project/netdata/netdata-kickstart-ISnZWx/netdata-v1.17.1/libnetdata/socket/security.c:123: undefined reference to `TLS_server_method'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I've a compilation error, because the script kickstart ( configure script) take the wrong version of the openssl :

find /usr/ -name "libcrypto.pc"
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc
/usr/local/ssl/lib/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc

root@MICKA:/project/netdata/netdata-kickstart-ISnZWx/netdata-v1.17.1# cat /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc
prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
enginesdir=${libdir}/engines-1.1

Name: OpenSSL-libcrypto
Description: OpenSSL cryptography library
Version: 1.1.1b
Libs: -L${libdir} -lcrypto
Libs.private: -ldl -pthread
Cflags: -I${includedir}

root@MICKA:/project/netdata/netdata-kickstart-ISnZWx/netdata-v1.17.1# cat /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc
prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: OpenSSL-libcrypto
Description: OpenSSL cryptography library
Version: 1.0.1t
Requires:
Libs: -L${libdir} -lcrypto
Libs.private: -ldl
Cflags: -I${includedir}

And when i tried to do ./configure

I got in the makefile :

LIBCRYPTO_CFLAGS = -I/usr/local/include
LIBCRYPTO_LIBS = -L/usr/local/lib -lcrypto

which is from the file :

strace -e open pkg-config --libs libcrypto
=>
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libcrypto.pc

looks like that there is no filter in the pkg-config command ? It would be good to add a filter ?

[Ferroin]

Closing this in favor of #8306. Actually fixing this is somewhat complicated to do, so we're just going to document we don't support this for the time being and be done with it.