Mention BN_sqr failure on x86 platforms in ./RPOBLEMS.

[openssl.git] / PROBLEMS

diff --git a/PROBLEMS b/PROBLEMS
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--- a/PROBLEMS
+++ b/PROBLEMS
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ along the whole library path before it bothers looking for .a libraries.  This
 means that -L switches won't matter unless OpenSSL is built with shared
 library support.
 
-The workaround may be to change the following lines in apps/Makefile.ssl and
-test/Makefile.ssl:
+The workaround may be to change the following lines in apps/Makefile and
+test/Makefile:
 
   LIBCRYPTO=-L.. -lcrypto
   LIBSSL=-L.. -lssl
@@ -168,3 +168,23 @@ hire /bin/ksh to do the job /bin/sh fails to do.
    your $PATH with chosen location, e.g. PATH=/tmp:$PATH. Alter-
    natively just replace system /bin/test and /bin/[ with the
    above script.
+
+* hpux64-ia64-cc fails blowfish test.
+
+Compiler bug, presumably at particular patch level. It should be noted
+that same compiler generates correct 32-bit code, a.k.a. hpux-ia64-cc
+target. Drop optimization level to +O2 when compiling 64-bit bf_skey.o.
+
+* no-engines generates 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.