Thanks Dr. Stephen and Andy for helping me resolve this issue. I modified
fipsld script to use gcc for compiling fips_premain.c and it worked.

On 11/25/12 1:42 PM, "Andy Polyakov" <ap...@openssl.org> wrote:

>Santhosh Kokala wrote:
>> I would really appreciate, if someone helps me with this issue.
>
>Why not just think for a second?
>
>>>> export FIPSLD_CC=g++
>>>> export CC=gcc
>
>means that it's using g++ to compile fips_premain.c. FIPSLD_CC takes
>precedence over CC in fipsld: CC=${FIPSLD_CC:-${CC}}
>
>>>> export CXX=/usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0/bin/fipsld
>>>>
>>>> Build Errors:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /tmp/cczHeW7i.o: In function `FINGERPRINT_premain()':
>>>> /usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0/bin/../lib/fips_premain.c:103: undefined
>>>> reference
>>>> to `FIPS_text_start()'
>>>> /usr/local/ssl/fips-2.0/bin/../lib/fips_premain.c:116: undefined
>>>> reference
>>>> to `FIPS_incore_fingerprint(unsigned char*, unsigned int)'
>
>So try to compile fips_premain.c manually with g++ and run 'nm
>fips_premain.o'. Note undefined symbols and try to find them in
>fipscanister.o. This answers question what's going on. With this answer
>you can also determine what to do. Setting FIPSLD_CC to gcc shall
>compile fips_premain.c correctly, but it might fail to link with rest of
>your code, because g++ driver adds language-specific libraries [and
>linker options]. Therefore there are two options. a) Set FIPSLD_CC to
>gcc, figure out language-specific libraries [and linker options] and
>explicitly add them to fipsld command line. b) Make g++ treat
>fips_premain.c as C and not C++, e.g. by setting FIPSLD_CC to "g++ -x c".
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