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| * System libcrypto.dylib and libssl.dylib are used by system ld on MacOS X.
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| 
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| 
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|     NOTE: The problem described here only applies when OpenSSL isn't built
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|     with shared library support (i.e. without the "shared" configuration
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|     option).  If you build with shared library support, you will have no
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|     problems as long as you set up DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH properly at all times.
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| 
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| 
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| This is really a misfeature in ld, which seems to look for .dylib libraries
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| along the whole library path before it bothers looking for .a libraries.  This
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| means that -L switches won't matter unless OpenSSL is built with shared
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| library support.
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| 
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| The workaround may be to change the following lines in apps/Makefile and
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| test/Makefile:
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| 
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|   LIBCRYPTO=-L.. -lcrypto
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|   LIBSSL=-L.. -lssl
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| 
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| to:
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| 
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|   LIBCRYPTO=../libcrypto.a
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|   LIBSSL=../libssl.a
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| 
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| It's possible that something similar is needed for shared library support
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| as well.  That hasn't been well tested yet.
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| 
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| 
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| Another solution that many seem to recommend is to move the libraries
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| /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.dylib, /usr/lib/libssl.0.9.dylib to a different
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| directory, build and install OpenSSL and anything that depends on your
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| build, then move libcrypto.0.9.dylib and libssl.0.9.dylib back to their
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| original places.  Note that the version numbers on those two libraries
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| may differ on your machine.
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| 
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| 
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| As long as Apple doesn't fix the problem with ld, this problem building
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| OpenSSL will remain as is. Well, the problem was addressed in 0.9.8f by
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| passing -Wl,-search_paths_first, but it's unknown if the flag was
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| supported from the initial MacOS X release.
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| 
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| 
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| * Parallell make leads to errors
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| 
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| While running tests, running a parallell make is a bad idea.  Many test
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| scripts use the same name for output and input files, which means different
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| will interfere with each other and lead to test failure.
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| 
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| The solution is simple for now: don't run parallel make when testing.
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| 
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| 
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| * Bugs in gcc triggered
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| 
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| - According to a problem report, there are bugs in gcc 3.0 that are
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|   triggered by some of the code in OpenSSL, more specifically in
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|   PEM_get_EVP_CIPHER_INFO().  The triggering code is the following:
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| 
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| 	header+=11;
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| 	if (*header != '4') return(0); header++;
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| 	if (*header != ',') return(0); header++;
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| 
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|   What happens is that gcc might optimize a little too agressively, and
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|   you end up with an extra incrementation when *header != '4'.
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| 
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|   We recommend that you upgrade gcc to as high a 3.x version as you can.
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| 
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| - According to multiple problem reports, some of our message digest
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|   implementations trigger bug[s] in code optimizer in gcc 3.3 for sparc64
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|   and gcc 2.96 for ppc. Former fails to complete RIPEMD160 test, while
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|   latter - SHA one.
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| 
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|   The recomendation is to upgrade your compiler. This naturally applies to
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|   other similar cases.
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| 
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| - There is a subtle Solaris x86-specific gcc run-time environment bug, which
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|   "falls between" OpenSSL [0.9.8 and later], Solaris ld and GCC. The bug
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|   manifests itself as Segmentation Fault upon early application start-up.
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|   The problem can be worked around by patching the environment according to
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|   http://www.openssl.org/~appro/values.c.
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| 
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| * solaris64-sparcv9-cc SHA-1 performance with WorkShop 6 compiler.
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| 
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| As subject suggests SHA-1 might perform poorly (4 times slower)
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| if compiled with WorkShop 6 compiler and -xarch=v9. The cause for
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| this seems to be the fact that compiler emits multiplication to
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| perform shift operations:-( To work the problem around configure
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| with './Configure solaris64-sparcv9-cc -DMD32_REG_T=int'.
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| 
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| * Problems with hp-parisc2-cc target when used with "no-asm" flag
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| 
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| When using the hp-parisc2-cc target, wrong bignum code is generated.
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| This is due to the SIXTY_FOUR_BIT build being compiled with the +O3
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| aggressive optimization.
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| The problem manifests itself by the BN_kronecker test hanging in an
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| endless loop. Reason: the BN_kronecker test calls BN_generate_prime()
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| which itself hangs. The reason could be tracked down to the bn_mul_comba8()
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| function in bn_asm.c. At some occasions the higher 32bit value of r[7]
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| is off by 1 (meaning: calculated=shouldbe+1). Further analysis failed,
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| as no debugger support possible at +O3 and additional fprintf()'s
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| introduced fixed the bug, therefore it is most likely a bug in the
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| optimizer.
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| The bug was found in the BN_kronecker test but may also lead to
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| failures in other parts of the code.
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| (See Ticket #426.)
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| 
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| Workaround: modify the target to +O2 when building with no-asm.
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| 
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| * Problems building shared libraries on SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.6
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|   with gcc 2.95.3
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| 
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| The symptoms appear when running the test suite, more specifically
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| test/ectest, with the following result:
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| 
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| OSSL_LIBPATH="`cd ..; pwd`"; LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"; DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"; SHLIB_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$SHLIB_PATH"; LIBPATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$LIBPATH"; if [ "debug-sco5-gcc" = "Cygwin" ]; then PATH="${LIBPATH}:$PATH"; fi; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH SHLIB_PATH LIBPATH PATH; ./ectest
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| ectest.c:186: ABORT
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| 
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| The cause of the problem seems to be that isxdigit(), called from
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| BN_hex2bn(), returns 0 on a perfectly legitimate hex digit.  Further
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| investigation shows that any of the isxxx() macros return 0 on any
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| input.  A direct look in the information array that the isxxx() use,
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| called __ctype, shows that it contains all zeroes...
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| 
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| Taking a look at the newly created libcrypto.so with nm, one can see
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| that the variable __ctype is defined in libcrypto's .bss (which
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| explains why it is filled with zeroes):
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| 
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| $ nm -Pg libcrypto.so | grep __ctype
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| __ctype B 0011659c
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| __ctype2 U         
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| 
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| Curiously, __ctype2 is undefined, in spite of being declared in
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| /usr/include/ctype.h in exactly the same way as __ctype.
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| 
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| Any information helping to solve this issue would be deeply
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| appreciated.
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| 
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| NOTE: building non-shared doesn't come with this problem.
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| 
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| * ULTRIX build fails with shell errors, such as "bad substitution"
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|   and "test: argument expected"
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| 
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| The problem is caused by ULTRIX /bin/sh supporting only original
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| Bourne shell syntax/semantics, and the trouble is that the vast
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| majority is so accustomed to more modern syntax, that very few
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| people [if any] would recognize the ancient syntax even as valid.
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| This inevitably results in non-trivial scripts breaking on ULTRIX,
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| and OpenSSL isn't an exclusion. Fortunately there is workaround,
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| hire /bin/ksh to do the job /bin/sh fails to do.
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| 
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| 1. Trick make(1) to use /bin/ksh by setting up following environ-
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|    ment variables *prior* you execute ./Configure and make:
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| 
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| 	PROG_ENV=POSIX
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| 	MAKESHELL=/bin/ksh
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| 	export PROG_ENV MAKESHELL
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| 
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|    or if your shell is csh-compatible:
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| 
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| 	setenv PROG_ENV POSIX
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| 	setenv MAKESHELL /bin/ksh
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| 
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| 2. Trick /bin/sh to use alternative expression evaluator. Create
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|    following 'test' script for example in /tmp:
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| 
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| 	#!/bin/ksh
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| 	${0##*/} "$@"
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| 
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|    Then 'chmod a+x /tmp/test; ln /tmp/test /tmp/[' and *prepend*
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|    your $PATH with chosen location, e.g. PATH=/tmp:$PATH. Alter-
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|    natively just replace system /bin/test and /bin/[ with the
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|    above script.
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| 
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| * hpux64-ia64-cc fails blowfish test.
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| 
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| Compiler bug, presumably at particular patch level. It should be noted
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| that same compiler generates correct 32-bit code, a.k.a. hpux-ia64-cc
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| target. Drop optimization level to +O2 when compiling 64-bit bf_skey.o.
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| 
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| * no-engines generates errors.
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| 
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| Unfortunately, the 'no-engines' configuration option currently doesn't
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| work properly.  Use 'no-hw' and you'll will at least get no hardware
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| support.  We'll see how we fix that on OpenSSL versions past 0.9.8.
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| 
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| * 'make test' fails in BN_sqr [commonly with "error 139" denoting SIGSEGV]
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|   if elder GNU binutils were deployed to link shared libcrypto.so.
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| 
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| As subject suggests the failure is caused by a bug in elder binutils,
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| either as or ld, and was observed on FreeBSD and Linux. There are two
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| options. First is naturally to upgrade binutils, the second one - to
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| reconfigure with additional no-sse2 [or 386] option passed to ./config.
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| 
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| * If configured with ./config no-dso, toolkit still gets linked with -ldl,
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|   which most notably poses a problem when linking with dietlibc.
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| 
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| We don't have framework to associate -ldl with no-dso, therefore the only
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| way is to edit Makefile right after ./config no-dso and remove -ldl from
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| EX_LIBS line.
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| 
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| * hpux-parisc2-cc no-asm build fails with SEGV in ECDSA/DH.
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| 
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| Compiler bug, presumably at particular patch level. Remaining
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| hpux*-parisc*-cc configurations can be affected too. Drop optimization
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| level to +O2 when compiling bn_nist.o.
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| 
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| * solaris64-sparcv9-cc link failure
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| 
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| Solaris 8 ar can fail to maintain symbol table in .a, which results in
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| link failures. Apply 109147-09 or later or modify Makefile generated
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| by ./Configure solaris64-sparcv9-cc and replace RANLIB assignment with
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| 
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| 	RANLIB= /usr/ccs/bin/ar rs
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