RE: Build Failure On Digital Unix 4.0D

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: "Boyce, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

nick.boyce> Words fail me ... and this is a commercial big-bucks Unix ...
nick.boyce> Thanks for the analysis.

Heh.

nick.boyce> Erm ... I need to find a way forward on this.

Didn't you already?  Just avoid using -fPIC on True64.  Ah, yes, I
forgot to answer your other question: as far as I know, position
independent code (that's what "PIC" means) is always being produced
bye Compaq C and ld on True64.  Or at least that seems to be the
default.

nick.boyce> Should I submit a bug to Compaq against Digital Unix's
nick.boyce> linker, or submit a bug against OpenSSL to ask for a
nick.boyce> workaround to be built in for Digital Unix platforms ?

Neither.  Since you added -fPIC yourself, you can hardly blame OpenSSL
for it, and you can hardly blame Digital when you're using an
unsupported option.  You *can* blame them for having a brain-dead ld,
but that's about all.

However, you can also report to the mod-ssl folks that -fPIC is not
always absolutely needed, and that on True64 using Compaq C, that
seems to be the case.

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