_ssl.so build problems on Solaris 8 for 2.3

[Skip Montanaro]

I'm trying to build the released version of Python 2.3 on Solaris 8 for the
first time.

It has problems when building _ssl.so.  The command generated
is

    gcc -shared build/temp.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.3/_ssl.o \
        -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lssl -lcrypto \
        -o build/lib.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.3/_ssl.so

It generates an enormous table which begins with:

    Text relocation remains             referenced
        against symbol          offset  in file
    <unknown>                   0x4     /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_ciph.o)
    <unknown>                   0x2c    /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_ciph.o)
    <unknown>                   0x54    /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_ciph.o)
    <unknown>                   0x7c    /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_ciph.o)
    <unknown>                   0xa4    /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a(ssl_ciph.o)
    ...

That goes on and on and on (it must print several hundred lines), finally
finishing up with

    ...
    v2i_GENERAL_NAME            0xa1c   /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(v3_alt.o)
    v2i_GENERAL_NAME            0x15c   /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(v3_crld.o)
    v2i_GENERAL_NAME            0x2e8   /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(v3_info.o)
    ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Is distutils missing some libraries or have I hosed the OpenSSL installation
somehow?  2.3b2 installed fine back in early July (including _ssl.so),
though the OpenSSL install has been updated since then (end of July).

Googling for "python solaris ssl" and checking the top-level
README for "ssl" didn't turn up anything promising.

Thanks,

Skip