In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:

> * The Quick Start section in INSTALL refers to "./Configure <system>"
>   where it should be "sh config".
> * config starts with the #!/bin/sh preamble. So why not set it to
>   executable?
> * crypto/bf/asm contains the obsolete file bf586.pl from 0.8, which
>   has been replaced by bf-586.pl.
> * test/test.txt looks like an obsolete version of test/testenc.
> * crypto/sha/asm/f.s is an old version of the autogenerated file
>   crypto/sha/asm/sx86unix.s.

Fixed.

> * I reported earlier that I got an illegal instruction error in the
>   SHA1 assembler code for Linux 1. Turns out it is not related to
>   the OS, but the instruction "bswapl" actually is illegal on
>   the 386. Hm ...

I'm not an assembler guy, so someone else has to look at this...

> BTW, there are "new" snapshots appearing on ftp.openssl.org even when
> there are no changes to the previous one. I think that is a bit
> confusing.

Yes, the snapshots are rolled by a cronjob and this cronjob has now knowledge
whether something really has changed or not.  I personally see no problem
here. Actually I think people would be confused when snapshots are missing in
sequence, just because nothing changed ;-)

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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