This message addresses *all* users, rather than report originator alone. > openssl-0.9.7e's Makefile contains -notall for do_irix-shared. This > option is not understood by the SGI IRIX 5.3 IDO (IRIX development > option) cc. Later versions (SGI MIPSPRO) might be different. > Changing it into -none seems to solve the problem.
Formally this puts us, OpenSSL developers, in rather tight situation. Indeed, as we can't possibly have access to *all* platforms OpenSSL can or *could* be compiled at, statements like "this solves my problem in my out-of-date setup and I don't know how it affects others [who are most likely majority!]" doesn't really make life easier, does it? So *please*, do some background research, provide pointers or information itself [like snippets from manual pages], etc. For example in this particular case request originator could have pointed at ld manual page at http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/ and ratiocinate that "given that another major IRIX release is highly unlikely to appear and -none is still supported by 6.5, replacing -notall with -none resolves this backward compatibility issue and covers both up-to-date and legacy setups." One can argue what would be the point for him to do it, if an OpenSSL developer could do it [as we obviosuly see here]. Well, it's just that *I* *happened* to be familiar with IRIX, that's all. This is by no means guarantees that next time a similar matter will be left unattended or platform simply declared unsupported. A. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
