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authorPauli <ppzgs1@gmail.com>2021-02-10 21:53:57 +1000
committerPauli <ppzgs1@gmail.com>2021-02-12 12:28:55 +1000
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Add a configure time option to disable the fetch cache.
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14126)
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@@ -582,6 +582,14 @@ alternative, you can use the language specific variables, `CFLAGS` and `CXXFLAGS
Build only some minimal set of features.
This is a developer option used internally for CI build tests of the project.
+### no-cached-fetch
+
+Never cache algorithms when they are fetched from a provider. Normally, a
+provider indicates if the algorithms it supplies can be cached or not. Using
+this option will reduce run-time memory usage but it also introduces a
+significant performance penalty. This option is primarily designed to help
+with detecting incorrect reference counting.
+
### no-capieng
Don't build the CAPI engine.