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authorAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2003-01-12 21:39:13 +0000
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2003-01-12 21:39:13 +0000
commit0382c95e4dcfa53ed53da692d87d7df6a8cf7e29 (patch)
tree41ed654c1ff18c4a35fce0a5ff90595f3bb8150a /FAQ
parentfda20f08d0b4cbde367cb0aefcecd51f878175d8 (diff)
OpenBSD FAQ update. Apparently gas from binutils-2.x makes it impossible to
use gcc -fPIC ... on OpenBSD-i386. Alternative solution is provided.
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diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 9d1b0bb6c1..bb2f21595d 100644
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+++ 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some reason OpenBSD is equipped with an out-of-date GNU assembler which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 <URL: http://www.openssl.org/~appro/gas-1.92.3.OpenBSD.patch>.
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.
+<URL: http://www.openssl.org/~appro/gas-1.92.3.OpenBSD.bin>.
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