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> I think there is a BUG in the OpenSSL-0.9.6 config program, using sun CC > compiler on a Sun-Sparc20. > > Even if a Sun-Sparc20 has a V8 architecture, you must use V7 architecture. > > In line 449 of the "config" file, it should be written : > > sun4m-*-solaris2) OUT="solaris-sparcv7-$CC" ;; > > instead of > > sun4m-*-solaris2) OUT="solaris-sparcv8-$CC" ;; > > As there are now, config files of Openssl generate code that is not > executable on my platform : > > ./openssl: Exec format error. Binary file not executable. > > file openssl: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC32PLUS Version 1, V8+ > Required, dynamically linked, not stripped I can't reproduce the problem and find the statement that one "must use V7 architecture" groundless. It must be something wrong with your environment and it's very unlikely that it's OpenSSL problem. > On the other hand, if I change "sparcv8" by "sparcv7", openSSL works > good It should be noted that v7 code performs public-key operations about 4 times slower than v8 code (i.e. on v8 CPU) meaning that your web server will be able to accept 4 times *less* connections per given period of time than it possibly could. If this falls to definition of "good," then you have the option to manually execute './Configure solaris-sparcv7-cc' and bypass the ./config script. > I realize that Sun-SPARCstation-20 and Sun-SPARCstation-10 are a > litle bit obsolete now, but perhaps sombodyelse somewhere uses them to > run httpd , www.openssl.org is a SPARCstation-5 workstation. Andy.
