> Please please please forget about that allextract nonsense. You will*never*
> get it portable to all desired platforms.

The changes being discussed affect Solaris and Solaris only, we're not
talking about "all desired platforms."

> Just take the lib*.a and relink it
> explicitly:
>         mkdir tmp; cd tmp; ar x ../libcrypto.a; ld -r -o ../libcrypto.o *.o
>         ld -G -o libcrypto.so libcrypto.o -l<whatever>

As mentioned calling /usr/ccs/bin/ld *is* an alternative. Or is it?
Imagine following scenario. You compile the toolkit with gcc and link
with ld as you suggest. This might leave unresolved references to
libgcc. Now if it did, then attempt to cc ... -lssl would fail... A.
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