./PROBLEMS update from HEAD.

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@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ along the whole library path before it bothers looking for .a libraries.  This
 means that -L switches won't matter unless OpenSSL is built with shared
 library support.
 
-The workaround may be to change the following lines in apps/Makefile and
-test/Makefile:
+The workaround may be to change the following lines in apps/Makefile.ssl and
+test/Makefile.ssl:
 
   LIBCRYPTO=-L.. -lcrypto
   LIBSSL=-L.. -lssl
@@ -48,20 +48,34 @@ will interfere with each other and lead to test failure.
 The solution is simple for now: don't run parallell make when testing.
 
 
-* Bugs in gcc 3.0 triggered
+* Bugs in gcc triggered
 
-According to a problem report, there are bugs in gcc 3.0 that are
-triggered by some of the code in OpenSSL, more specifically in
-PEM_get_EVP_CIPHER_INFO().  The triggering code is the following:
+- According to a problem report, there are bugs in gcc 3.0 that are
+  triggered by some of the code in OpenSSL, more specifically in
+  PEM_get_EVP_CIPHER_INFO().  The triggering code is the following:
 
        header+=11;
        if (*header != '4') return(0); header++;
        if (*header != ',') return(0); header++;
 
-What happens is that gcc might optimize a little too agressively, and
-you end up with an extra incrementation when *header != '4'.
+  What happens is that gcc might optimize a little too agressively, and
+  you end up with an extra incrementation when *header != '4'.
 
-We recommend that you upgrade gcc to as high a 3.x version as you can.
+  We recommend that you upgrade gcc to as high a 3.x version as you can.
+
+- According to multiple problem reports, some of our message digest
+  implementations trigger bug[s] in code optimizer in gcc 3.3 for sparc64
+  and gcc 2.96 for ppc. Former fails to complete RIPEMD160 test, while
+  latter - SHA one.
+
+  The recomendation is to upgrade your compiler. This naturally applies to
+  other similar cases.
+
+- There is a subtle Solaris x86-specific gcc run-time environment bug, which
+  "falls between" OpenSSL [0.9.8 and later], Solaris ld and GCC. The bug
+  manifests itself as Segmentation Fault upon early application start-up.
+  The problem can be worked around by patching the environment according to
+  http://www.openssl.org/~appro/values.c.
 
 * solaris64-sparcv9-cc SHA-1 performance with WorkShop 6 compiler.
 
@@ -120,3 +134,37 @@ Any information helping to solve this issue would be deeply
 appreciated.
 
 NOTE: building non-shared doesn't come with this problem.
+
+* ULTRIX build fails with shell errors, such as "bad substitution"
+  and "test: argument expected"
+
+The problem is caused by ULTRIX /bin/sh supporting only original
+Bourne shell syntax/semantics, and the trouble is that the vast
+majority is so accustomed to more modern syntax, that very few
+people [if any] would recognize the ancient syntax even as valid.
+This inevitably results in non-trivial scripts breaking on ULTRIX,
+and OpenSSL isn't an exclusion. Fortunately there is workaround,
+hire /bin/ksh to do the job /bin/sh fails to do.
+
+1. Trick make(1) to use /bin/ksh by setting up following environ-
+   ment variables *prior* you execute ./Configure and make:
+
+       PROG_ENV=POSIX
+       MAKESHELL=/bin/ksh
+       export PROG_ENV MAKESHELL
+
+   or if your shell is csh-compatible:
+
+       setenv PROG_ENV POSIX
+       setenv MAKESHELL /bin/ksh
+
+2. Trick /bin/sh to use alternative expression evaluator. Create
+   following 'test' script for example in /tmp:
+
+       #!/bin/ksh
+       ${0##*/} "$@"
+
+   Then 'chmod a+x /tmp/test; ln /tmp/test /tmp/[' and *prepend*
+   your $PATH with chosen location, e.g. PATH=/tmp:$PATH. Alter-
+   natively just replace system /bin/test and /bin/[ with the
+   above script.