[SunHELP] openssh binary problem

Dale Ghent daleg at elemental.org
Tue Sep 30 16:43:40 CDT 2003


On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 05:30 PM, Tim Longo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently compiled the new openssh-3.7.1p2 on my Sunblade 100, Solaris
> 8 machine, and found the binary would not run on older Sparc 20's, but
> would run on my Ultra's (1's, 30's, 60's, & 80's).  I thought it might
> be that I compiled on a 64bit os?  So, I decided to compile on the 
> Sparc 20.

SPARC32PLUS, V8+ Required is the key there.

Those denote an instruction set which runs only on UltraSPARC CPUs 
(sun4u architecture. The SS20 is sun4m.) In OpenSSH, it is the OpenSSL 
libraries (which I assume were statically compiled into your OpenSSH 
binaries) which use these instructions.

/dale



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