1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2d.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2d.bb
index fd568414fa..659e0bd49e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2d.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_1.0.2d.bb
@@ -56,3 +56,13 @@ PARALLEL_MAKEINST = ""
 do_configure_prepend() {
   cp ${WORKDIR}/find.pl ${S}/util/find.pl
 }
+
+# The crypto_use_bigint patch means that perl's bignum module needs to be
+# installed, but some distributions (for example Fedora 23) don't ship it by
+# default.  As the resulting error is very misleading check for bignum before
+# building.
+do_configure_prepend() {
+        if ! perl -Mbigint -e true; then
+                bbfatal "The perl module 'bignum' was not found but this is required to build openssl.  Please install this module (often packaged as perl-bignum) and re-run bitbake."
+        fi
+}