Make "shared" builds the default

In most cases we expect that people will be using shared libraries not
static ones, therefore we make that the default.

Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

4 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 70b846e3a9..d6cfc0ec8b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
  Changes between 1.0.2g and 1.1.0  [xx XXX xxxx]
 
+  *) "shared" builds are now the default. To create only static libraries use
+     the "no-shared" Configure option.
+     [Matt Caswell]
+
   *) Remove the no-aes, no-hmac, no-rsa, no-sha and no-md5 Configure options.
      All of these option have not worked for some while and are fundamental
      algorithms.
diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 8192f9e7d2..a7b9ed564f 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -341,7 +341,6 @@ our %disabled = ( # "what"         => "comment"
 		  "md2"                 => "default",
 		  "rc5"                 => "default",
 		  "sctp"                => "default",
-		  "shared"              => "default",
 		  "ssl-trace"           => "default",
 		  "ssl3"                => "default",
 		  "ssl3-method"         => "default",
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3e0496df49..dad2a08853 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -240,10 +240,9 @@
   sctp
                    Build support for SCTP
 
-  shared
-                   In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared
-                   libraries on platforms where it's supported.  See "Note on
-                   shared libraries" below.
+  no-shared
+                   Do not create shared libraries, only static ones.  See "Note
+                   on shared libraries" below.
 
   no-sock
                    Don't build support for socket BIOs
@@ -638,15 +637,12 @@
  Note on shared libraries
  ------------------------
 
- Shared libraries have certain caveats.  Binary backward compatibility
- can't be guaranteed before OpenSSL version 1.0.  The only reason to
- use them would be to conserve memory on systems where several programs
- are using OpenSSL.
-
- For most 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
- the option "shared" will get them created.
+ For most systems the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
+ build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems
+ the shared libraries will be created by default. This can be suppressed and
+ only static libraries created by using the "no-shared" option. On systems
+ where OpenSSL does not know how to build shared libraries the "no-shared"
+ option will be forced and only static libraries will be created.
 
  Note on random number generation
  --------------------------------
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 42557a6622..72f757966d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
   Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [in pre-release]
 
+      o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
       o Added support for "pipelining"
       o Added the AFALG engine
       o New threading API implemented