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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-07-17 11:29:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2002-07-17 11:29:15 +0000 |
| commit | 311e209931ab32ea5ff4d69088ecabf85eee2680 (patch) | |
| tree | 2bad73b757a49905f19ee83c7d41b228b7fcd88d /FAQ | |
| parent | fe5eb6707f231e9f5f9aa54d4d8723ec054410b0 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-311e209931ab32ea5ff4d69088ecabf85eee2680.tar.gz | |
Add a few FAQ entries for the various ways building OpenSSL on MacOS X
can fail, and point at the text in the PROBLEMS file
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ OpenSSL - Frequently Asked Questions * Why does the OpenSSL compilation fail with "ar: command not found"? * Why does the OpenSSL compilation fail on Win32 with VC++? * What is special about OpenSSL on Redhat? +* Why does the OpenSSL compilation fail on MacOS X? +* Why does the OpenSSL test suite fail on MacOS X? [PROG] Questions about programming with OpenSSL @@ -496,6 +498,32 @@ MDC-2: 4,908,861 13/03/2007 IDEA: 5,214,703 25/05/2010 RC5: 5,724,428 03/03/2015 + +* Why does the OpenSSL compilation fail on MacOS X? + +If the failure happens when trying to build the "openssl" binary, with +a large number of undefined symbols, it's very probable that you have +OpenSSL 0.9.6b delivered with the operating system (you can find out by +running '/usr/bin/openssl version') and that you were trying to build +OpenSSL 0.9.7 or newer. The problem is that the loader ('ld') in +MacOS X has a misfeature that's quite difficult to go around. +Look in the file PROBLEMS for a more detailed explanation and for possible +solutions. + + +* Why does the OpenSSL test suite fail on MacOS X? + +If the failure happens when running 'make test' and the RC4 test fails, +it's very probable that you have OpenSSL 0.9.6b delivered with the +operating system (you can find out by running '/usr/bin/openssl version') +and that you were trying to build OpenSSL 0.9.6d. The problem is that +the loader ('ld') in MacOS X has a misfeature that's quite difficult to +go around and has linked the programs "openssl" and the test programs +with /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib and /usr/lib/libssl.dylib instead of the +libraries you just built. +Look in the file PROBLEMS for a more detailed explanation and for possible +solutions. + [PROG] ======================================================================== * Is OpenSSL thread-safe? |