Here is a patch I created for the Makefile.org file to correct the
problem we were having...
Steven Bade wrote:
> It seems that building with -Wl,-Bsymbolic on the linker options for
> creating the libcrypto.so makes this issue go away...
>
> Tom Wu wrote:
>
>> Steven Bade wrote:
>>
>>> We've created in the openCryptoki project a software token which
>>> uses openSSL's crypto routines... When running under the iplanet
>>> regression test suite we get a core dump in the key generation
>>> code... Tracing it down, the crash occurs in the SHA1_Update... one
>>> of the community members as a test changed the calls in the openSSL
>>> code to SHA1_Update to be FOO_SHA1_Update.
>>>
>>> Any of the more experienced openSSL developers out there have any
>>> suggestions of things we may try with regard to linker options or
>>> other ideas that we could do to address this collision (I doubt that
>>> I;m going to be able to get netscape to chance their function names
>>> :)....
>>
>>
>>
>> We encountered the same problem here when loading OpenSSL-based
>> modules under iPlanet or the Netscape browser. Our solution was to
>> add macros to the OpenSSL includes to "remap" the offending symbols to
>> avoid conflicts. We also added placeholders for the old function
>> names that called the remapped functions to ensure that our library
>> binaries were still binary and source-compatible with unmodified
>> OpenSSL libraries.
>>
>>> thanks for your help...
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
>
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we cannot clean it up, there is no way at all
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--- Makefile.org.base Fri Apr 5 08:56:18 2002
+++ Makefile.org Fri Apr 5 08:56:36 2002
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@
( set -x; ${CC} -shared -o lib$$i.so.${SHLIB_MAJOR}.${SHLIB_MINOR} \
-Wl,-soname=lib$$i.so.${SHLIB_MAJOR}.${SHLIB_MINOR} \
-Wl,--whole-archive lib$$i.a \
+ -Wl,-Bsymbolic \
-Wl,--no-whole-archive $$libs ${EX_LIBS} -lc ) || exit 1; \
libs="$$libs -l$$i"; \
done
