Openssl compilation issue for 8.2.5 / 9

I've been having a strange problem compiling openssl, either 1.0.1 or 1.0.2 from master.

Building for generic using a Deb 9 build host gives me:

making install in tools...

make[2]: Entering directory '/media/build/sam/http://LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.2.5/openssl-1.0.2l/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu/tools'

make[2]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add '+' to parent make rule.

make[2]: Leaving directory '/media/build/sam/http://LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.2.5/openssl-1.0.2l/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu/tools'

installing libcrypto.a

installing libssl.a

installing libcrypto.so.1.0.0

installing libssl.so.1.0.0

Segmentation fault

make[1]: *** [Makefile:552: install_sw] Error 139

make[1]: Leaving directory '/media/build/sam/http://LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.2.5/openssl-1.0.2l/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu'

Makefile:12: recipe for target 'image' failed

make: *** [image] Error 2

I don't really understand what is failing exactly, and Google isn't helping me at the moment.

Thanks

Quote from vpeter

Remove package and try again

Code

PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/clean openssl
PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make

I've copied and pasted those commands, still the same issue, same output as before.

Is there anything else I can try?

This is a bizarre issue.

I've isolated the issue to this particular line in the openssl Makefile:

make -f $here/Makefile HERE="$here" link-shared );

The output of which when run normally is:

GNU Make 4.2.1

Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <The GNU General Public License v3.0 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Reading makefiles...

Reading makefile '/media/build/sam/http://LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.2.5/openssl-1.0.2o/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu/Makefile'...

Updating makefiles....

Segmentation fault

When I run the entire shell script from the Makefile manually, it succeeds, suggesting it's something environmental.

And when I modify the Makefile, running that particular line with the debugger, again it works fine. Yet again, and again, it always fails when building without modification.

The TL;DR version, I've compiled openssl ( and built Libreelec ) successfully, but there is something funny going on. Potentially a bug in Debian Stretch tools?