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| author | Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> | 2021-08-16 22:25:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> | 2021-08-19 21:50:14 +0200 |
| commit | 92115096c31bf5d2ddd3263a21d2cb86b3dbfe3f (patch) | |
| tree | b3d9a387231a803ce4747c623434ce8515f362f2 /INSTALL.md | |
| parent | util/add-depends.pl: Rebuild the build file after reconfiguration (diff) | |
| download | openssl-92115096c31bf5d2ddd3263a21d2cb86b3dbfe3f.tar.xz openssl-92115096c31bf5d2ddd3263a21d2cb86b3dbfe3f.zip | |
Minor doc enhancements to INSTALL.md
Describe current relationship between config and Configure.
Put the environment variable list in alphabetical order.
Add description of KERNEL_BITS.
Add new variable CONFIG_NOWAIT.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16325)
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 37 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index c717dfcdf0..f483c0e8a0 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -1142,11 +1142,9 @@ Configure OpenSSL ### Automatic Configuration -On some platform a `config` script is available which attempts to guess -your operating system (and compiler, if necessary) and calls the `Configure` -Perl script with appropriate target based on its guess. Further options can -be supplied to the `config` script, which will be passed on to the `Configure` -script. +In previous version, the `config` script determined the platform type and +compiler and then called `Configure`. Starting with this release, they are +the same. #### Unix / Linux / macOS @@ -1406,11 +1404,29 @@ over the build process. Typically these should be defined prior to running using this variable. Set it to the compiler executable you wish to use, e.g. gcc or clang. + CONFIG_NOWAIT + On platforms where the choice of 32-bit or 64-bit architecture + is not explicitly specified, `Configure` will print a warning + message and wait for a few seconds to let you interrupt the + configuration. Setting this variable will skip the wait. + CROSS_COMPILE This environment variable has the same meaning as for the "--cross-compile-prefix" Configure flag described above. If both are set then the Configure flag takes precedence. + HASHBANGPERL + The command string for the Perl executable to insert in the + #! line of perl scripts that will be publicly installed. + Default: /usr/bin/env perl + Note: the value of this variable is added to the same scripts + on all platforms, but it's only relevant on Unix-like platforms. + + KERNEL_BITS + This can be the value `32` or `64` to specify the architecture + when it is not "obvious" to the configuration. It should generally + not be necessary to specify this environment variable. + NM The name of the nm executable to use. @@ -1435,12 +1451,8 @@ over the build process. Typically these should be defined prior to running Only needed if builing should use a different Perl executable than what is used to run the Configure script. - HASHBANGPERL - The command string for the Perl executable to insert in the - #! line of perl scripts that will be publicly installed. - Default: /usr/bin/env perl - Note: the value of this variable is added to the same scripts - on all platforms, but it's only relevant on Unix-like platforms. + RANLIB + The name of the ranlib executable to use. RC The name of the rc executable to use. The default will be as @@ -1449,9 +1461,6 @@ over the build process. Typically these should be defined prior to running variable is synonymous to this. If both are defined then RC takes precedence. - RANLIB - The name of the ranlib executable to use. - WINDRES See RC. |