Do you mean to say I should modify fipsld to use gcc for compiling
fips_premain.c. Or is there any way to still use g++ for my application with
minimal  change in fipsld.  Please suggest.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011, raghib nasri wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >        I am using FIPS Object Module and encountered an error while
> > compiling my application using g++.
> >        ?fips_premain.c:71: error: initializer-string for array of chars
> is
> > too long?
> >        I cannot change fips_premain.c  since its part of FIPS validation
> I
> > guess.
> >        Please suggest any sollution.
>
> Although you can't modify fips_premain.c you can modify fipsld: which
> doesn't
> have to the be the standard one as long as it follows the rules in the
> security policy.
>
> Steve.
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