failing installation of Net::SSLeay extension in Perl/5.34.1/GCCcore-11.3.0 in EESSI 2023.04 (related to OpenSSL) #259
Description
== 2023-06-07 06:55:57,644 run.py:217 DEBUG run_cmd: running cmd export OPENSSL_PREFIX=$EBROOTOPENSSL && perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/cvmfs/pilot.eessi-hpc.org/versions/2023.04/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/Perl/5.34.1-GCCcore-11.3.0 (in /tmp/easybuild/build/Perl/5.34.1/GCCcore-11.3.0/NetSSLeay/Net-SSLeay-1.92)
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== 2023-06-07 06:55:57,769 build_log.py:171 ERROR EasyBuild crashed with an error (at easybuild/tools/build_log.py:111 in caller_info): cmd "export OPENSSL_PREFIX=$EBROOTOPENSSL && perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/cvmfs/pilot.eessi-hpc.org/versions/2023.04/software/linux/x86_64/amd/zen3/software/Perl/5.34.1-GCCcore-11.3.0 " exited with exit code 1 and output:
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* COULD NOT FIND LIBSSL HEADERS *
* *
* The libssl header files are required to build Net-SSLeay, but they are *
* missing from . They would typically reside in /include/openssl. *
May be due to OpenSSL 3.0.x in 2023.04 compat layer, or could be self-inflicted because we're filtering the OpenSSL/1.1 dependency (cfr. #256), which leads to $EBROOTOPENSSL not being defined.