Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:12:43 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OpenSSL port issue for older releases (a.out) Message-ID: <199911160912.CAA01646@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19991116100946.A85949@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <199911152305.QAA29971@mt.sri.com> <19991116100946.A85949@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
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> > What is the purpose of this, and can it be removed? (This port is a
> > pre-requisite for OpenSSH)...
..
>
> The freebsd-shared target in ${WORKDIR}/Makefile.org builds an ar archive
> with shared objects in it. --whole-archive is used to "convert" the
> ar archive into a shared library.
Ahh, Ok.
> OpenSSL doesn't really support building of shared libraries, yet.
> So this is just a hack.
>
> So what to do?
>
> - You can use a "private" solution by applying the attached patch to
> openssl in order to pull out building of shared libraries.
>
> - You can come up with a real solution for 2.x, 3.x and 4.x.
3.0-3.1 (maybe 3.2) also use a.out by default, so we're not supporting
them. We're only supporting ELF machines, unfortunately. :(
Thanks for the patch, I'll try it out and see what happens!
Nate
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