you mean the config.mk file under security/nss/lib/freebl, correct?
"Nelson B. Bolyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Patrick wrote:
> >
> > What about the message saying " to report this error as a bug"?
>
> That message comes from the program that gcc invoked the process the .s
> file. That program is probably "gas", the gnu assembler. It is telling
> you to report an error to the people responsible for the gas assembler
> itself.
>
> > Has anyone seen these porting issues with the
> > /nsprpub/pr/src/md/unix/os_HPUX.s file on HP11?
>
> AFAIK, no one has ever before tried to port NSS to HPUX without using HP's
> compilers and assemblers.
>
> There are numerous Unix platforms on which it is necessary to use hand
> optimized assembler code to get anything near reasonable performance for
> RSA, DSA, DH and other algorithms that use very big numbers (e.g. 1024 bit
> integers and larger). Each of those platforms has its own native
assembler
> language that is supported by the vendor's own assembler program. The gnu
> assembler is also available for many (perhaps all) of those platforms, but
> generally gnu's assembler language has a different syntax than the
vendor's
> own assembler language, so that a single assembler source file typically
> cannot be used both with the vendor's assembler and with gnu's assembler.
> Consequently separate .s files are required for each assembler.
>
> NSS has assembler files for several platforms/CPUs, including HP PA_Risc
> 2.0, UltraSparc v8 and UltraSparc v9, various MIPS cpus, and Intel x86.
> Of these, the only platform/CPU on which separate NSS assembler source
> files hav been developed for vendor and gnu assemblers (AFAIK) is x86.
>
> IINM, HP's compiler/assembler tools that we use are installed in
> /opt/ansic/bin, which we prepend to our path. Have you looked there?
>
> You can build for HPUX without using any assembler code. However, I'd
> expect it to be pretty slow.
>
> I no longer have an HPUX system on which to do test builds. So the idea
> I have, below, for building without any assembler code may or may not
> work.
>
> I _think_ that if you replace the entire content of the file config.mk
> with a single line that reads simply
>
> USE_PURE_32 = 1
>
> that might work.
>
>
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