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authorDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2019-03-13 23:16:29 +0100
committerDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2019-03-14 10:32:58 +0100
commit6bc62a620e715f7580651ca932eab052aa527886 (patch)
treecdb4aaa5dfdf7611dbc6aa874a5b38966cbc1f56 /doc/man3/OSSL_trace_enabled.pod
parentd33d76168fb7642916cdcb7ccb0513abdb6f5f05 (diff)
downloadopenssl-6bc62a620e715f7580651ca932eab052aa527886.tar.gz
Configure: disable new trace api by default
Fixes #8472 Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8474)
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diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_trace_enabled.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_trace_enabled.pod
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+++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_trace_enabled.pod
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The functions described here are mainly interesting for those who provide
OpenSSL functionality, either in OpenSSL itself or in engine modules
or similar.
-If operational (see L</NOTES> below), these functions are used to
+If tracing is enabled (see L</NOTES> below), these functions are used to
generate free text tracing output.
The tracing output is divided into types which are enabled
@@ -110,10 +110,11 @@ OSSL_trace_enabled() before generating any output, for example:
OSSL_trace_end(OSSL_TRACE_CATEGORY_TLS, trace);
}
-=head2 Tracing disabled
+=head2 Configure Tracing
-The OpenSSL library may be built with tracing disabled, which makes
-everything documented here inoperational.
+By default, the OpenSSL library is built with tracing disabled. To
+use the tracing functionality documented here, it is therefore
+necessary to configure and build OpenSSL with the 'enable-trace' option.
When the library is built with tracing disabled: