[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/doc Belatedly note security/openssl hack to workaround...

[seb <seb%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/84e47e2c5f62
branches:  trunk
changeset: 472671:84e47e2c5f62
user:      seb <seb%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date:      Sun Apr 11 19:44:27 2004 +0000

description:
Belatedly note security/openssl hack to workaround perl 5.8's int()
failure on sparc64.

diffstat:

 doc/HACKS |  14 +++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (25 lines):

diff -r b357500070a6 -r 84e47e2c5f62 doc/HACKS
--- a/doc/HACKS Sun Apr 11 19:42:00 2004 +0000
+++ b/doc/HACKS Sun Apr 11 19:44:27 2004 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: HACKS,v 1.23 2004/01/31 01:25:51 kristerw Exp $
+# $NetBSD: HACKS,v 1.24 2004/04/11 19:44:27 seb Exp $
 #
 # This file is intended to document workarounds for currently unsolved
 # (mostly) compiler bugs.
@@ -400,3 +400,15 @@
 file   databases/cdb/patches/patch-aa : 1.1
 descr  Compilation of the tryulong32.c configuration test takes ~forever.
 kcah
+
+hack   perl 5.8/openssl/sparc64 bug
+cdate  Wed Feb 16 13:24:06 2000
+who    seb
+port   sparc64
+file   security/openssl/patches/patch-ak
+descr
+       Perl's int() function gives bad result on sparc64.
+       Hence openssl's bn_prime.pl perl script fails.
+       Use POSIX::floor() as a workaround.
+       See perl ticket #25249.
+kcah