building openssl 1.1.1 for Solaris 10

[Michael Wojcik]

> From: tim.j.culhane at gmail.com [mailto:tim.j.culhane at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2020 06:35
> To: Michael Wojcik; openssl-users at openssl.org
> Subject: RE: building openssl 1.1.1 for Solaris 10
>
> Ok, attempting to build openssl 1.1.1e  now.
>
> As prompted by the config script  I'm  running Configure as  follows:
>
> ./Configure solaris64-sparcv9-cc --prefix=/opt/openssl/1.1.1
> --openssldir=/opt/openssl/1.1.1
>
> That completes successfully.  However, when I then run gmake I see  warnings
> like the below:
>
>
> cc: Warning: -xarch=v9 is deprecated, use -m64 to create 64-bit programs
>
> How can I configure the makefiles so they use  '-m64'.

As far as I know you can't, except by editing Configurations/10-main.conf (one of the inputs to the Configure script). The -xarch=... flags are hard-coded there.

Personally I wouldn't worry about it. -xarch is deprecated, but it still works. (And -m64 is not, as I understand it, exactly equivalent to -xarch anyway. I'm a bit suspicious of that warning from cc; I'd think you'd want -mcpu=... as well as -m64. But I haven't looked at the Sun C compiler options for some years.)

What version of the C compiler are you using? Note these comments in 10-main.conf:

# SC4.0 doesn't pass 'make test', upgrade to SC5.0 or SC4.2.
# SC4.2 is ok, better than gcc even on bn as long as you tell it -xarch=v8
# SC5.0 note: Compiler common patch 107357-01 or later is required!

Some people prefer to use gcc on Solaris for this reason.

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Michael Wojcik
Distinguished Engineer, Micro Focus