I don't think PowerPC 32 failing is a blocker for main or stable/15: we're ending support for 32 bit platforms. Do we ever plan to merge this to stable/14 though?

In D51613#1178895, @philip wrote:

I don't think PowerPC 32 failing is a blocker for main or stable/15: we're ending support for 32 bit platforms. Do we ever plan to merge this to stable/14 though?

From what I heard:

• 32-bit PowerPC is not a blocker for main nor stable/15, as it is already disabled by default in main.
• There is no plan to merge OpenSSL 3.5 into stable/14.

I am now trying to build 32-bit PowerPC with this set in secure/lib/libcrypto/Makefile.common:

+.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "powerpc"
+PICFLAG=       -fPIC
+.endif

It seems to help, but I have to restart a build from scratch to be sure.

In D51613#1178895, @philip wrote:

I don't think PowerPC 32 failing is a blocker for main or stable/15: we're ending support for 32 bit platforms. Do we ever plan to merge this to stable/14 though?

No. OpenSSL breaks enough ABIs between minor versions that things like this cannot be backported without a ton of pain to downstream consumers.

I'll look at this sometime in the future. I've been off-grid for quite a while now for a variety of personal reasons.

In D51613#1179498, @khorben_defora.org wrote:

In D51613#1178895, @philip wrote:

I don't think PowerPC 32 failing is a blocker for main or stable/15: we're ending support for 32 bit platforms. Do we ever plan to merge this to stable/14 though?

From what I heard:

• 32-bit PowerPC is not a blocker for main nor stable/15, as it is already disabled by default in main.
• There is no plan to merge OpenSSL 3.5 into stable/14.

While 32-bit powerpc is disabled as a "full" architecture in main, lib32 is still a thing for powerpc64, and libcrypto/libssl are built as part of lib32, so you still need powerpc 32-bit to work in practice.

Using -fPIC is fine, as noted in e-mail, we already use -fPIC in a a few other places in the tree for 32-bit powerpc.