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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2018-01-29 20:19:36 +0300 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2018-01-29 23:56:48 +0300 |
commit | 917a1b2e069ba807417c8dffaa8f1e5214813de8 (patch) | |
tree | 0a24478270ac959f20869cf054b87010f8d2d136 | |
parent | ca3724142a759703dace678e73613cfda6c00cd0 (diff) |
Document the use of configdata.pm as a script
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5185)
-rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | README | 3 |
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ Changes between 1.1.0f and 1.1.1 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Changed Configure so it only says what it does and doesn't dump + so much data. Instead, ./configdata.pm should be used as a script + to display all sorts of configuration data. + [Richard Levitte] + *) Added processing of "make variables" to Configure. [Richard Levitte] @@ -625,6 +625,22 @@ precedence over environment variables that are defined when reconfiguring. + Displaying configuration data + ----------------------------- + + The configuration script itself will say very little, and finishes by + creating "configdata.pm". This perl module can be loaded by other scripts + to find all the configuration data, and it can also be used as a script to + display all sorts of configuration data in a human readable form. + + For more information, please do: + + $ ./configdata.pm --help # Unix + + or + + $ perl configdata.pm --help # Windows and VMS + Installation in Detail ---------------------- @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development] + o Move the display of configuration data to configdata.pm. o Allow GNU style "make variables" to be used with Configure. o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE) o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes @@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ and create an issue on GitHub: - OpenSSL version: output of 'openssl version -a' - - Any "Configure" options that you selected during compilation of the - library if applicable (see INSTALL) + - Configuration data: output of 'perl configdata.pm --dump' - OS Name, Version, Hardware platform - Compiler Details (name, version) - Application Details (name, version) |