On 6/16/2015 12:21 AM, Atul Thosar wrote: > ?Hi All, > > From archives/google, I understood that the OpenSSL works/supported on Solaris > 11 platform, but in our case, it's a bit different scenario. > > Currently, we build OpenSSL v0.9.8zc on Solaris 10 (SunOS, sun4u, sparc) and it > works well on Solaris 10 platform. We use Sun Studio 12 compiler. > > We would like to run it on Solaris 11.2 (SunOS, sun4v, sparc) platform w/o > changing the build platform. I mean we will continue to build OpenSSL on Solaris > 10 and run it on Solaris 11. > > Has anyone encounter such situation?Appreciate any help/pointers if this > mechanism will work? Hi Atul What Nico and Andy say are correct, but I would like to ask why you would be interested in doing this? As is well known, 0.9.8 will be end-of-life by the end of this year. Solaris 11.2 includes 1.0.1 with patches from 1.0.2 for SPARC hardware acceleration. 1.0.1 already included Intel AESNI hardware optimizations. 0.9.8 does not have those optimizations for either platform. From a support model, we only do regression testing with the versions of OpenSSL that we are shipping without operating system. As we know, many things on Solaris to depend on OpenSSL, like SunSSH. We cannot guarantee that the SunSSH that we are shipping on Solaris 11 will work and perform well on top of 0.9.8, due to the lack of ABI compatibility that we had with OpenSSL itself between 0.9.8 and 1.0.0 (I do not offhand remember what those specific incompatibilities were). For further information about the OpenSSL version we are shipping with Solaris 11.2, see Misaki's blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/observatory/entry/openssl_on_solaris_11_2 So, while the general principle should work, your time is probably better invested in standardizing on 1.0.1. Thank you, Valerie -- NOTE: Using voice recognition software, forgive typos/grammar mistakes! Valerie Fenwick, http://bubbva.blogspot.com/ @bubbva Solaris Cryptographic & Key Management Technologies, Manager Oracle Corporation: 4180 Network Circle, Santa Clara, CA, 95054.
