building a PIC enabled version of openssl 1.0.2k on Sparc 10

[Michael Wojcik]

> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces at openssl.org] On Behalf Of
> tim.j.culhane at gmail.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 08:36
>
> I'm building a PIC enabled shared library in my server which links against
> openssl 1.0.2k libssl.a library on Sparc 10.
>
> When compiling  I see the below errors.
>
> I  originally built  the 1.0.2k version of openssl with the following
> configure  arguments:
>
> ./Configure solaris64-sparcv9-cc --prefix=/opt/openssl/1.0.2k
> --openssldir=/opt/openssl/1.0.2k -lrt -m64
>
> Do I need to  pass in  the  -fPIC flag as well, and if so  how do I do that.

I believe you do, though our use case is different - we build OpenSSL as a PIC archive library, which we then linked into a shared object. If you're building OpenSSL as a shared object (well, a pair of shared objects, for libcrypto and libssl), then you may be able to do that with the appropriate Configure options.

My teams have switched to 1.1.1, so I don't have a 1.0.2 build handy to check.

> I appended it to the end of the  configure  line I  show above  but there
> was no sign of PIC in any of the top level makefiles produced.

For 1.0.2, we edited the Configure file. We kept a log of the purposes of our changes, and looked at the Configure diffs for each new 1.0.2 release so we could port the relevant changes back to our Configure.

We haven't had to do that with 1.1.1; its Configure is more flexible.

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Michael Wojcik
Distinguished Engineer, Micro Focus