[FreeBSD 7.0-CUR/gcc 4.2/portsnap]: portsnap fetch reports illegal portsnap tag!

[Colin Percival]

O. Hartmann wrote:
> Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... Illegal instruction
> invalid snapshot tag.
> 
> Is there anything wrong? I remember myself of issues with OpenSSL and
> gcc 4.2, so due to the calculation of the checksum this might cause the
> error.

This is the OpenSSL/gcc42 bug being invoked when portsnap calls openssl
to verify a signature.

Colin Percival