OpenSSL/1.1 fails the sanity test when using a proxy with authentication on Rocky 9

[verdurin]

I found that when building OpenSSL/1.1 on Rocky 9 we cannot use the wrapper because the OS does not provide compatibility headers.

In this case, the system is air gapped, and we need to use an authenticated proxy for external connections.

Unfortunately, the sanity test involves a connection to Github and it doesn't format the proxy settings properly.
It adds the whole string from the https_proxy environment variable to the -proxy parameter, instead of using -proxy_user and -proxy_pass. As a result the sanity test fails because s_client rejects the badly formatted -proxy value and does not use the authenticated proxy.

The workaround is to add:

skipsteps = ['sanitycheck']

to the OpenSSL easyconfig.