Commit d54f8c8c authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Add a blurb on how to solve the problem with failing compiltaion of sha_dgst.c on Alpha True64 Unix

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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ OpenSSL - Frequently Asked Questions
* Why can't the OpenSSH configure script detect OpenSSL?
* Why does the OpenSSL test fail with "bc: command not found"?
* Why does the OpenSSL test fail with "bc: 1 no implemented"?
* Why does the OpenSSL compilation fail on Alpha True64 Unix?


* Which is the current version of OpenSSL?
@@ -323,3 +324,26 @@ you run the test suite (using "make test"). The message returned is "bc:
implementation of bc and compile/install it.  For example, GNU bc (see
http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html for download instructions) can
be safely used.


* Why does the OpenSSL compilation fail on Alpha True64 Unix?

On some Alpha installations running True64 Unix and Compaq C, the compilation
of crypto/sha/sha_dgst.c fails with the message 'Fatal:  Insufficient virtual
memory to continue compilation.'  It's currently unknown why this happens,
except that it has to do with optimization.  The very quick solution would
be to compile everything with -O0 as optimization level, but that's not a very
nice thing to do for those who expect to get the best result from OpenSSL.
A bit more complicated solution is the following:

----- snip:start -----
  make DIRS=crypto SDIRS=sha "`grep '^CFLAG=' Makefile.ssl | \
       sed -e 's/ -O[0-9] / -O0 /'`"
  rm `ls crypto/*.o crypto/sha/*.o | grep -v 'sha_dgst\.o'`
  make
----- snip:end -----

This will only compile sha_dgst.c with -O0, the rest with the optimization
level chosen by the configuration process.  When the above is done, do the
test and installation and you're set.