[SUMMARY] Strange shared library/compile problem

 Thanks to all who replied:
 Sam Magee
 Santos, Ramiro
 David Foster
 Steudten Thomas

 Probable cause: bitrot. I was unable to reproduce this on another Solaris 8
 system w/ same patch level, and the problem disappeared after reinstalling
 the affected machine from scratch.

Lars Hecking writes:
>  Came across this while trying to compile php-latest, and I can't get a grip
>  on the problem.
> 
>  Environment: Solaris 8 02/02, 13/08/02 patches
>  Compiler: gcc 2.95.3, Sun Forte 6 update 2
>            /usr/ccs/bin tools. i.e. not GNU binutils
>  OpenSSL: 0.9.6g; libs installed in /usr/lib, successful "make test"
>  
> 
>  Take the following minimum code. This is basically the openssl test from
>  php's configure:
> 
> $ cat ssltest.c
> char SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version();
> 
> int main() {
>     SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version()
> ; return 0; }
> 
> $ gcc -o ssltest ssltest.c -lssl
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version             /var/tmp/ccUVZq9B.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to ssltest
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>  The same happens with cc instead of gcc. The same happens regardless
>  whether I compile openssl with gcc or cc. SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version is
>  present in both the static and the shared library, so it's not a
>  matter of missing/symbol symbol tables:
> 
> $ cd /usr/lib
> $ /usr/ccs/bin/nm libssl.a |grep SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version
> [30]    |       572|     128|FUNC |GLOB |0    |2      |SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version
> $ /usr/ccs/bin/nm libssl.so.0.9.6  | grep SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version
> [853]   |    121396|     128|FUNC |GLOB |0    |11     |SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version
> 
>  Now the icing on the cake: this works flawlessly on a Solaris 7 system.
>  Same compilers, same openssl version.
> 
>  More icing: when I copy the openssl libs from the Solaris 7 system (where
>  it all works) to the Solaris 8 system, the compile still fails.
> 
>  It's driving me nuts. I am absolutely unable to establish where exactly
>  the problem is: compilers, linker, openssl, auxiliary tools (ar etc.).
>  It would be beneficial to have a verbose flag for the linker, but there
>  doesn't seem to be one (GNU ld OTOH has one).
> 
>  Any ideas?
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