Configure fail to find assembler version when used with gcc and French locale

[rtouze]

• v10.2.1:
• SMP Debian 4.15.11-1:
• configure:

I tried to build v10.2.1 from sources on Debian:

Linux rtodevbox 4.15.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1 (2018-03-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux

By default (without CC env var and any option), configure returns

ERROR: Did not find a new enough assembler, install one or build with
       --openssl-no-asm.
       Please refer to BUILDING.md

Found out that my locale is French and command used to get gas version returns:

gcc -Wa,-v -c -o /dev/null -x assembler /dev/null
# Version de l'assembleur GNU 2.30 (x86_64-linux-gnu) utilisant la version BFD (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.30

Which won't match the regex GNU assembler version ([2-9]\.[0-9]+) to return gas version (line 291).

I'm not sure how you want to handle this, as it can occur with other locales as well.

Workarounds:

• setting CC and CXX to clang ans clang++ (having llvm and clang installed)
• Run configure with: LANG=en_EN.utf8 ./configure

[rtouze]

Fix proposal:
configure.diff.gz

[richardlau]

This is being addressed by #20394.

[Trott]

#20394 landed in June. Should this be closed? @richardlau

[richardlau]

#20394 landed in June. Should this be closed? @richardlau

I assume so. Please reopen if this is still occurring.

[smallwolf1991]

Try upgrade binutils version >= 2.23, the detail see configure.py

    openssl110_asm_supported = \
      ('gas_version' in variables and float(variables['gas_version']) >= 2.23) or \
      ('xcode_version' in variables and float(variables['xcode_version']) >= 5.0) or \
      ('llvm_version' in variables and float(variables['llvm_version']) >= 3.3) or \
      ('nasm_version' in variables and float(variables['nasm_version']) >= 2.10)

[smallwolf1991]

Try upgrade binutils version >= 2.23, the detail see configure.py

    openssl110_asm_supported = \
      ('gas_version' in variables and float(variables['gas_version']) >= 2.23) or \
      ('xcode_version' in variables and float(variables['xcode_version']) >= 5.0) or \
      ('llvm_version' in variables and float(variables['llvm_version']) >= 3.3) or \
      ('nasm_version' in variables and float(variables['nasm_version']) >= 2.10)

My environment

• Centos 6.9
• GCC 4.4.9 upgrade to 6.4.0
• Binutils 2.20.5 update to 2.25.1

[rtouze]

It's OK now. Thanks.