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| author | Richard Levitte <[email protected]> | 2002-07-17 13:29:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <[email protected]> | 2002-07-17 13:29:26 +0200 |
| commit | 5fe5996867d3f44a7989ddf7b72daaefcde8550b (patch) | |
| tree | f59fa6d7284e66ff9245ec4ad292fe7e55eac5b7 | |
| parent | On MacOS X, you're not allowed to have common objects in shared libraries (diff) | |
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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
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 15 |
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@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ 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 test suite fail on MacOS X? [PROG] Questions about programming with OpenSSL @@ -487,6 +488,20 @@ 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 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? |