I think it's probably more likely to do with the -fPIE option - this requires that the libraries linked be position independent too. The fact is that when I used --without-hardening, the link succeeded without any other changes. I don't believe any -fPIC option is being used anywhere in my scenario. I'd recommend rebuilding OpenSSL with -fPIC instead, There are various reasons why I don't want to do that, but that's irrelevant. The point is that linking with a static libssl always worked before; hence I thought it worth mentioning. If it's not going to be supported (I hope you won't go that route, of course), then it should bomb out intentionally, not just because some random test happened to fail. Another possibility would be to avoid the relro option unless the library is dynamic, or make it a separate configure option, or whatever. I believe that is the one that's the issue, and the others are fine. there are many security benefits to the hardening options we enable. I know. Best, Karl _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev