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Why does the OpenSSL test suite fail on MacOS X?

April 26, 2017fail MacOS OpenSSL Suite Test

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Why does the OpenSSL test suite fail on MacOS X?

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If the failure happens when running ‘make test’ and the RC4 test fails, it’s very probable that you have OpenSSL 0.9.6b delivered with the operating system (you can find out by running ‘/usr/bin/openssl version’) and that you were trying to build OpenSSL 0.9.6d. The problem is that the loader (‘ld’) in MacOS X has a misfeature that’s quite difficult to go around and has linked the programs “openssl” and the test programs with /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib and /usr/lib/libssl.dylib instead of the libraries you just built. Look in the file PROBLEMS for a more detailed explanation and for possible solutions.