Indeed, That's the ticket. The link chain took me back to -lcrypto. Our libcrypto.so is a sparc-v8+ so that one pkg can live on all of our sparcs.
And so, compiling gmp, *and* nettle, (and pike and caudium) v8+ mode solved the problem.
Thanks to all who chimed in!
Cheers! -sam
From: Kevin Ryde user42@zip.com.au Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:36:28 +1000
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./configure --disable-shared ABI=64
"ABI and ISA" in the manual describes the options you need to add to application compiles if you want to use the 64-bit ABI.