As long as Apple doesn't fix the problem with ld, this problem building
-OpenSSL will remain as is.
+OpenSSL will remain as is. Well, the problem was addressed in 0.9.8f by
+passing -Wl,-search_paths_first, but it's unknown if the flag was
+supported from the initial MacOS X release.
* Parallell make leads to errors
Unfortunately, the 'no-engines' configuration option currently doesn't
work properly. Use 'no-hw' and you'll will at least get no hardware
support. We'll see how we fix that on OpenSSL versions past 0.9.8.
+
+* 'make test' fails in BN_sqr [commonly with "error 139" denoting SIGSEGV]
+ if elder GNU binutils were deployed to link shared libcrypto.so.
+
+As subject suggests the failure is caused by a bug in elder binutils,
+either as or ld, and was observed on FreeBSD and Linux. There are two
+options. First is naturally to upgrade binutils, the second one - to
+reconfigure with additional no-sse2 [or 386] option passed to ./config.
+
+* If configured with ./config no-dso, toolkit still gets linked with -ldl,
+ which most notably poses a problem when linking with dietlibc.
+
+We don't have framework to associate -ldl with no-dso, therefore the only
+way is to edit Makefile right after ./config no-dso and remove -ldl from
+EX_LIBS line.