From 0293371a1bf9e64b08a9c93c4203dfb7dc7e2266 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Polyakov Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:57:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention BN_sqr failure on x86 platforms in ./RPOBLEMS. PR: 1176 [and others] --- PROBLEMS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/PROBLEMS b/PROBLEMS index c46d7e5e3c..ad632d4df7 100644 --- a/PROBLEMS +++ b/PROBLEMS @@ -180,3 +180,11 @@ target. Drop optimization level to +O2 when compiling 64-bit bf_skey.o. Unfortunately, the 'no-engines' configuration option currently doesn't work properly. Use 'no-hw' and you'll will at least get no hardware support. We'll see how we fix that on OpenSSL versions past 0.9.8. + +* 'make test' fails in BN_sqr [commonly with "error 139" denoting SIGSEGV] + if elder GNU binutils were deployed to link shared libcrypto.so. + +As subject suggests the failure is caused by a bug in elder binutils, +either as or ld, and was observed on FreeBSD and Linux. There are two +options. First is naturally to upgrade binutils, the second one - to +reconfigure with additional no-sse2 [or 386] option passed to ./config. -- 2.25.1