Commit 0382c95e authored by Andy Polyakov's avatar Andy Polyakov
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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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FAQ

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@@ -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

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some reason OpenBSD is equipped with an out-of-date GNU assembler which

some reason OpenBSD is equipped with an out-of-date GNU assembler which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

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

For your convenience a pre-compiled replacement binary is provided at

http://www.openssl.org/~appro/i386-openbsd3-as, which is compiled from

<URL: http://www.openssl.org/~appro/gas-1.92.3.OpenBSD.bin>.

binutils-2.8 released in 1997.





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