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author | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 1999-04-29 16:10:09 +0000 |
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committer | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 1999-04-29 16:10:09 +0000 |
commit | 5f8d5c967f890f5949e2f46dcefca052e10efde8 (patch) | |
tree | 71e5ef993b9260dd3b2be0bc2540256c26023a1c /INSTALL | |
parent | a79b03ce6fef6909ebb6c1d6b069d56da0c7a0c4 (diff) | |
download | openssl-5f8d5c967f890f5949e2f46dcefca052e10efde8.tar.gz |
New Configure options "threads" and "no-threads".
For Solaris and Linux, "threads" (with proper compiler options)
is the default.
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@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ rsaref Build with RSADSI's RSAREF toolkit. + no-threads Don't try to build with support for multi-threaded + applications. + + threads Build with support for multi-threaded applications. + This will usually require additional system-dependent options! + See "Note on multi-threading" below. + no-asm Build with no assembler code. 386 Use the 80386 instruction set only (the default x86 code is @@ -180,6 +187,22 @@ with names of the form <foo.h>. + Note on multi-threading + ----------------------- + + For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what compiler options + are needed to generate a library that is suitable for multi-threaded + applications. On these systems, support for multi-threading is enabled + by default; use the "no-threads" option to disable (this should never be + necessary). + + On other systems, to enable support for multi-threading, you will have + to specifiy at least two options: "threads", and a system-dependent option. + (The latter is "-D_REENTRANT" on various systems.) The default in this + case, obviously, is not to include support for multi-threading (but + you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message + from the Configure script.) + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The orignal Unix build instructions from SSLeay follow. |