Openssl (OS X Yosemite) Installation Make Errors

Question

While OpenSSL ver. 0.9.8za was already installed on my system (darwin64-x86_64-cc), I elected to install the latest version, 1.0.1j, using the instructions for UNIX systems, in the "INSTALL" file within the downloaded tarball. I chose to configure with the 64-bit option, './Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc', and then ran the makefile. So far, so good. After about a minute, as I was thinking the installation would be successful, the compiler displayed following error messages, after compilation terminated:

Compile command line: './Configure darwin64-x86_64-cc' (Openssl suggestion for 64-bit)

duplicate symbol _OPENSSL_cleanse in:
../libcrypto.a(mem_clr.o)
../libcrypto.a(x86_64cpuid.o)
ld: 1 duplicate symbol for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[2]: *** [link_app.] Error 1
make[1]: *** [openssl] Error 2 
make: *** [build_apps] Error 1

The problem appears to originate in the linker, but then again, I'm still a command line novice.
So, given this error, what needs to be changed in order to fully compile OpenSSL 1.0.1j?
When the automatic configuration route was taken (./config), the following error is given:

cc -I.. -I../.. -I../modes -I../asn1 -I../evp -I../../include  -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT
DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -arch i386 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DL_ENDIAN  
DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m 
DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM 
DGHASH_ASM   -c -o obj_xref.o obj_xref.c
ar  r ../../libcrypto.a o_names.o obj_dat.o obj_lib.o obj_err.o obj_xref.o
ar: ../../libcrypto.a is a fat file (use libtool(1) or lipo(1) and ar(1) on it)
ar: ../../libcrypto.a: Inappropriate file type or format
make[2]: *** [lib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
make: *** [build_crypto] Error 1

Update: The "PROBLEMS" documentation suggests changing two lines in the apps/Makefile and test/Makefile:

"LIBCRYPTO= -L.. -lcrypto"
"LIBSSL=-L -lssl"

to:

"LIBCRYPTO=../libcrypto.a"
"LIBSSL=../libssl.a"

Re-attempting make afterward, the same message was given.

My sincere thanks for the help and comments by jww, Jonathan L. and others gave/made. Should errors persist, I'll continue the search for the missing information and eventually post a solution.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your problem is. Using XCode 6 (6.1.1, I believe) on Yosemite 10.10.1, I was able to get openssl-1.0.1j from OpenSSL.org and extract it. I then configured it with:

./Configure --prefix=/usr/openssl/openssl-1.0.1j darwin64-x86_64-cc zlib threads shared

With those, I was able to build, test and install without problem. That's pretty close to what you did; I simply have noted the presence of zlib (compression) and requested thread and shared library support — and specified a slightly out-of-the-way location to install it. (The top-level directory specified with --prefix existed but was empty.) I tried adding sctp to the configuration options, but no dice — an SCTP header is missing, so I didn't bother to try further.