Bug 20656 - openssl only works on ultrasparc
Summary: openssl only works on ultrasparc
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: openssl
Version: 6.2
Hardware: sparc
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-10 20:03 UTC by mcornick
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-15 03:32:04 UTC
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Description mcornick 2000-11-10 20:03:38 UTC 
openssl-0.9.5a-2.6.x is set up to build with the linux-sparcv9
configuration on sparc. This produces libraries that won't work on sun4m or
sun4c processors. This is a considerable problem as several of the other
recent errata depend on libssl/libcrypto, making them useless on pre-Ultra
machines.

To the best of my knowledge, nothing else in 6.2 is UltraSPARC-only, right?
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-16 04:05:35 UTC 
That's correct.  The OpenSSL build process suffers from rampant
over-optimization for the processor used to compile its binaries.  Please verify
that running "rpm --rebuild" on the source package produces a proper set of
binaries.
Comment 2 mcornick 2001-01-16 04:38:45 UTC 
Unfortunately I can't help you on this now - I no longer have a SPARC machine
running Linux. Sorry...
Comment 3 David Juran 2001-02-18 20:07:40 UTC 
I've rebuilt the rpm on a SparcStation 5 and they seem to work now (-:
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