Compile OpenSSL with the 'shared' option?

Question

On CentOS 5.4, OpenSSL compiles fine without \'shared\' option. But when I passed that option the compilation fails with:

/usr/bin/ld: libcrypto.a(x86

Answer 1

There is an option -fXXX that you can pass to config so you can do it with:

./config -fPIC shared