I'm working with some legacy hardware, and I need to compile a customised version of opensslv0.9.8e onto a 32-bit system.
My Fedora 17 VM comes with gcc-4.7.2. Unfortunately, compiling the openssl version with this doesn't work, I get illegal instruction errors. I found posts here and here that suggest that this version of openssl doesn't compile with gcc 4.2.0 or higher
when compiling openssl 0.9.8e with gcc 4.2.0, some errors show up (see below). The test suite then fails with "instruction error". (The resulting programs also fail.)
I built and checked gcc-4.1.2 on the system where the reported error arose. I then rebuilt openssl with gcc-4.1.2 and could successfully run the test suite.
My current plan is to build 4.1.2 onto my system. Unfortunately, when doing so, I run into the following error:
WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified a '.texi'
or a '.texinfo' file, or any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. The
spurious call might also be the consequence of using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX). You might
want to install the 'Texinfo' package or the 'GNU make' package. Grab either from any GNU archive site
Then,
make[3]: ***[fastjar.info] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/charles/build/make/fastjar'
. . .
make: *** [all] Error 2
I've installed texinfo, but I can't find gmake on the yum package manager.
What are the next steps I should take? I'm stumped at the moment ):