openssl 1.1.1.c, mailx @12.4 rev6: mailx build error after rev update, possibly due to openssl update

[lhaeger (Lothar Haeger)]

Trying to update mailx form 12.4 rev5 to 12.4 rev6 gives me:

$ sudo port install -vst mailx
--->  Computing dependencies for mailx
--->  Fetching distfiles for mailx
--->  Attempting to fetch mailx-12.4.tar.bz2 from http://nue.de.distfiles.macports.org/mailx
--->  Verifying checksums for mailx
--->  Extracting mailx
--->  Applying patches to mailx
--->  Configuring mailx
--->  Building mailx
Error: Failed to build mailx: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_mail_mailx/mailx/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
Error: Processing of port mailx failed

Running the build command manually shows:

$ sudo /usr/bin/make -j4 -w all                                                                                                                                                                      make: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_mail_mailx/mailx/work/mailx-12.4'
/usr/bin/clang -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -arch x86_64 aux.o base64.o cache.o cmd1.o cmd2.o cmd3.o cmdtab.o collect.o dotlock.o edit.o fio.o getname.o getopt.o head.o hmac.o imap.o imap_search.o junk.o lex.o list.o lzw.o macro.o maildir.o main.o md5.o mime.o names.o nss.o openssl.o pop3.o popen.o quit.o send.o sendout.o smtp.o ssl.o strings.o temp.o thread.o tty.o v7.local.o vars.o version.o `grep '^[^#]' LIBS`  -o mailx
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_RAND_egd", referenced from:
      _ssl_init in openssl.o
  "_SSLv3_client_method", referenced from:
      _ssl_open in openssl.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [mailx] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_mail_mailx/mailx/work/mailx-12.4'

I've installed mailx 12.4 rev5 only a few hours ago when I still had openssl 1.0.2s installed. While running "port upgrade outdated", openssl was first updated to 1.1.1c and then the attempt updating mailx to 12.4 rev6 failed as above.

[yan12125 (Chih-Hsuan Yen)]

Thanks for the report. This is a duplicate of ticket:58990 and I'm working on it.

[Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12125@…>]

In 7f640d17a837219da0ecc791ada312f153e7b1ce/macports-ports (master):

s-nail: new port, a maintained fork of mail/mailx

The Portfile is based on mail/mailx and PKGBUILD from Arch Linux [1].

Notes for patches:

• patch-junk.c: there is no longer junk.c or similar files in s-nail.
• patch-maildir.c: the issue seems already fixed in s-nail.
• patch-makeconfig & patch-openssl.c: for newer OpenSSL, which is already supported by s-nail.
• patch-Makefile: s-nail's build system uses VAL_* variables for specifying installation paths, and compilation-related environment variables are honored.
• patches for CVE-2004-2771 and CVE-2014-7844: the vulnerability has been fixed in s-nail 14.7.9 [2].

Ref: #58990
Ref: #58994

[1] ​https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/s-nail
[2] ​https://salsa.debian.org/debian/s-nail/blob/master/README