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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2000-08-02 04:19:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2000-08-02 04:19:50 +0000 |
| commit | fcc6a1c4eccb8ada75f57b86343426864ce12ff5 (patch) | |
| tree | 18e254689d2b943db163bfa52bd8a766acbffa89 | |
| parent | 55bad949ed4d5743f5ac49e2b56696ffbafb001f (diff) | |
| download | openssl-fcc6a1c4eccb8ada75f57b86343426864ce12ff5.tar.gz | |
Added and corrected documentation for the 'shared' option
| -rwxr-xr-x | Configure | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 17 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ my $usage="Usage: Configure [no-<cipher> ...] [-Dxxx] [-lxxx] [-Lxxx] [-fxxx] [- # [no-]threads [don't] try to create a library that is suitable for # multithreaded applications (default is "threads" if we # know how to do it) -# [no-]shared [don't] try to create shared libraries instead of static -# ones when possible. +# [no-]shared [don't] try to create shared libraries when supported. # no-asm do not use assembler # no-dso do not compile in any native shared-library methods. This # will ensure that all methods just return NULL. @@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ This will usually require additional system-dependent options! See "Note on multi-threading" below. + no-shared Don't try to create shared libraries. + + shared In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared + libraries on platforms where it's supported. See "Note on + shared libraries" below. + no-asm Do not use assembler code. 386 Use the 80386 instruction set only (the default x86 code is @@ -253,3 +259,14 @@ you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message from the Configure script.) + + Note on shared libraries + ------------------------ + + For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to + build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems, + the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving + the option "shared" will get them created. This method supports Makefile + targets for shared library creation, like linux-shared. Those targets + can currently be used on their own just as well, but this is expected + to change in future versions of OpenSSL. |