OpenBSD FAQ update. Apparently gas from binutils-2.x makes it impossible to

use gcc -fPIC ... on OpenBSD-i386. Alternative solution is provided.
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Andy Polyakov 2003-01-12 21:40:15 +00:00
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@ -577,10 +577,10 @@ As of 0.9.7 assembler routines were overhauled for position independence
of the machine code, which is essential for shared library support. For
some reason OpenBSD is equipped with an out-of-date GNU assembler which
finds the new code offensive. To work around the problem, configure with
no-asm (and sacrifice a great deal of performance) or upgrade /usr/bin/as.
no-asm (and sacrifice a great deal of performance) or patch your assembler
according to <URL: http://www.openssl.org/~appro/gas-1.92.3.OpenBSD.patch>.
For your convenience a pre-compiled replacement binary is provided at
http://www.openssl.org/~appro/i386-openbsd3-as, which is compiled from
binutils-2.8 released in 1997.
<URL: http://www.openssl.org/~appro/gas-1.92.3.OpenBSD.bin>.
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