Compile error otp.c mdctx

[Jakub Jelen]

On 02/17/2017 08:39 PM, Daniel GSJ wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to compile cyrus-sasl-2.1.26 from source and the following error
> occurs:
>
> otp.c: In function 'otp_hash':
> otp.c:121:16: error: storage size of 'mdctx' isn't known
>      EVP_MD_CTX mdctx;
>
>                 ^~~~~
> --------
>
> otp.c: In function 'word2bin':
> otp.c:755:17: error: storage size of 'mdctx' isn't known
>       EVP_MD_CTX mdctx;
>                  ^~~~~
>
>
> O.S.= 4.9.0-kali1-amd64 / core i5
>
> I would appreciate any idea to fix it.

This is related to the new OpenSSL 1.1.0. You can either build the 
cyrus-sasl against older version, which works just fine (OpenSSL 1.0.2 
or so) or apply the OpenSSL related patches from upstream git repository:

https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/commits/master

Regards,

-- 
Jakub Jelen
Software Engineer
Security Technologies
Red Hat