Do you have the possibility to help out with this?  The help needed 
would be to tell us exactly what assembler lines are incorrect, so 
we can hack the Perl code appropriately, or perhaps direct help with 
said Perl code.

A quick solution is to configure with no-asm...

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Aug 21 22:22:09 2002]:

> Trying to build OpenSSL 0.9.6g on Solaris 8/Intel with a fixed
> solaris-x86-gcc shared configuration and a proper invokation of gcc
>    (using
> -shared instead of gcc -G as explained in a previous report) fails
>    since the
> assembler sources used contain text relocations.  The link step 
fails
>    with
> errors like this:
> 
> + gcc -shared -G -o libcrypto.so.0.9.6 -h libcrypto.so.0 -z 
allextract
>    libcrypto.a -L. -z defs -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lc
> Text relocation remains                       referenced
>     against symbol                offset      in file
> <unknown>                           0x22d2            
libcrypto.a(dx86-sol.o)
> 
> and many more.  This lets building libcrypto.so fail.  
Unfortunately,
>    it is
> not even possible to turn off the -z text implied with -shared 
with a
> subsequent -z textoff, since the linker complains:
> 
> ld: fatal: option -ztextoff and -ztext are incompatible
> ld: fatal: Flags processing errors
> 
> Anyway, shared libraries with remaining text relocations are not
>    really
> useful since they are not sharable, greatly diminishing their 
utility.
>    So
> perlasm and the various x86 assembler implementations should be 
fixed
>    to
> produce proper PIC code if shared libraries are to be produced.  
The
> affected files during the Solaris 8/Intel compilation were
> 
>   crypto/bf/asm/bx86-sol.o
>   crypto/cast/asm/cx86-sol.o
>   crypto/des/asm/dx86-sol.o
>   crypto/des/asm/yx86-sol.o
>   crypto/md5/asm/mx86-sol.o
>   crypto/rc4/asm/rx86-sol.o
>   crypto/sha/asm/sx86-sol.o
> 
> For the record, here's the test report:
> 
> OpenSSL self-test report:
> 
> OpenSSL version:  0.9.6g
> Last change:      [In 0.9.6g-engine release:]...
> Options:          --prefix=/vol/openssl
>    --openssldir=/vol/openssl/share shared
> OS (uname):       SunOS arenal 5.8 Generic_111920-01 i86pc i386
> OS (config):      i86pc-whatever-solaris2
> Target (default): solaris-x86-cc
> Target:           solaris-x86-gcc
> Compiler:         Configured with: /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-3.1-branch-
>    dist/configur
> e --prefix=/vol/gnu --with-local-prefix=/vol/gnu --disable-nls
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.1
> 
> Test passed.
> 
>       Rainer
> 


-- 
Richard Levitte
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