Re: pkg/43939 (security/openssl dumps core on Solaris 10/x86)

[Tim Zingelman <zingelman%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43939; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Zingelman <zingelman%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: solaris-pkg-people%netbsd.org@localhost, pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
obache%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        jwise%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/43939 (security/openssl dumps core on Solaris 10/x86)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:08:04 -0500

 On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:10 AM,  <obache%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 > Synopsis: security/openssl dumps core on Solaris 10/x86
 >
 > Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->solaris-pkg-people
 > Responsible-Changed-By: obache%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Responsible-Changed-When: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:10:55 +0000
 > Responsible-Changed-Why:
 > solaris pkgsrc problem.
 
 Per http://www.openssl.org/~appro/values.c
 
 # This is Solaris x86 specific GCC run-time environment patch, which
 # makes it possible to reliably deploy .init snippets. Trouble is that
 # Solaris linker erroneously pads .init segment with zeros [instead of
 # nops], which is bound to SEGV early upon program start-up. This bug
 # was recognized by GCC team [it is mentioned in source code], but
 # workaround apparently and obviously erroneously slipped away in some
 # newer GCC release. This patch compensates for this mishap by dropping
 # modified values-X*.o into GCC installation tree. Object modules in
 # question are normally provided by Sun and linked prior crtbegin.o.
 # Modified versions are additionally crafted with custom .init segment,
 # which does some magic:-)
 
 Not sure if this could/should be integrated into the pkgsrc gcc
 package?  (that would only fix folks using pkgsrc gcc, not the one
 provided by sun)
 Maybe just add a reference to this in a MESSAGES file?
 
  -Tim