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authorAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2005-09-19 14:57:44 +0000
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2005-09-19 14:57:44 +0000
commit0293371a1bf9e64b08a9c93c4203dfb7dc7e2266 (patch)
tree3348c573e1e73fe93040540784e4ad3a89133dd3
parentdd31c6fcb079272d68eeb70dacc5d620816fe14f (diff)
Mention BN_sqr failure on x86 platforms in ./RPOBLEMS.
PR: 1176 [and others]
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@@ -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.