building openssl 1.1.1 for Solaris 10

[Jeff Wieland]

Michael Wojcik wrote:
>> From: tim.j.culhane at gmail.com [mailto:tim.j.culhane at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2020 01:25
>>
>> I ran the gmake  and it fails with the below  ld errors.
>>
>> Is this the  known issue mentioned previously with building openssl on Sparc
>> or is it caused by something else?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Undefined first referenced
>> symbol in file
>> clock_gettime ./libcrypto.so
> It appears that's a known issue with building OpenSSL 1.1.1 on Solaris 10. (I think we haven't run into this in my team because we're now on Solaris 11, but I haven't investigated.)
>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount mentioned this in a reply to your first post in this thread:
>
>> They may have run into <https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/6333>
>> which the OpenSSL project seems disinclined to fix.
> If you look at that issue, you'll see people have posted workarounds. I believe it's just a matter of linking with an additional library.
>
> --
> Michael Wojcik
> Distinguished Engineer, Micro Focus
>
>
>

On Solaris 10, you need to link with -lrt to pick up the clock_gettime
functions.  If you do something like "export LDFLAGS='-lrt'" before you
invoke Configure, it should work.

-- 
Jeff Wieland, UNIX/Network Systems Administrator
Purdue University IT Infrastructure Services UNIX Platforms