Commit 1832f5e7 authored by Andy Polyakov's avatar Andy Polyakov
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My English is definitely not good as my assembly skills:-) And it looks 

like titles can't be multi-line (it doesn't look good on the FAQ web-page).
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FAQ

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@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ OpenSSL - Frequently Asked Questions 
* Why does the OpenSSL compilation fail on MacOS X?

* Why does the OpenSSL test suite fail on MacOS X?

* Why does the OpenSSL test suite fail in BN_sqr test [on a 64-bit platform]?

* Why does OpenBSD-i386 build fail on des-586.s with "Unimplemented

  segment type"?

* Why does OpenBSD-i386 build fail on des-586.s with "Unimplemented segment type"?



[PROG] Questions about programming with OpenSSL
@@ -572,15 +571,14 @@ C compiler you should be able to produce a working build by running 
but the build should be operational. For further details turn to

<openssl-dev@openssl.org>.



* Why does OpenBSD-i386 build fail on des-586.s with "Unimplemented

  segment type"?

* Why does OpenBSD-i386 build fail on des-586.s with "Unimplemented segment type"?



As of 0.9.7 assembler routines were overhauled for position independency

of the machine code, which is essential for shared library support. Now

for some reason OpenBSD is equipped with out-of-date GNU assembler which

finds the new code offending. To work the problem around configure with

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some reason OpenBSD is equipped with an out-of-date GNU assembler which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

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

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.