From: Andy Polyakov Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:39:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: OpenBSD FAQ update. Apparently gas from binutils-2.x makes it impossible to X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_0_9_7a~64^2~17 X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0382c95e4dcfa53ed53da692d87d7df6a8cf7e29;p=oweals%2Fopenssl.git OpenBSD FAQ update. Apparently gas from binutils-2.x makes it impossible to use gcc -fPIC ... on OpenBSD-i386. Alternative solution is provided. --- diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 9d1b0bb6c1..bb2f21595d 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -577,10 +577,10 @@ As of 0.9.7 assembler routines were overhauled for position independence of the machine code, which is essential for shared library support. For some reason OpenBSD is equipped with an out-of-date GNU assembler which finds the new code offensive. To work around the problem, configure with -no-asm (and sacrifice a great deal of performance) or upgrade /usr/bin/as. +no-asm (and sacrifice a great deal of performance) or patch your assembler +according to . For your convenience a pre-compiled replacement binary is provided at -http://www.openssl.org/~appro/i386-openbsd3-as, which is compiled from -binutils-2.8 released in 1997. +. [PROG] ========================================================================