From c1c971654b24e5917d908c9819fdb22bf58aebda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 01:43:11 +0000 Subject: Make an extra note about shared libraries and backward compatibility. --- INSTALL | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 21bff884aa..6634316cca 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ Note on shared libraries ------------------------ + Shared library is currently an experimental feature. The only reason to + have them would be to conserve memory on systems where several program + are using OpenSSL. Binary backward compatibility can't be guaranteed + before OpenSSL version 1.0. + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3