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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-02-22 10:16:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-02-22 14:38:31 +0100 |
| commit | 9de94148780d4b84765849896d831be62b30fc33 (patch) | |
| tree | c8e65b9fff5ad87212635a0ae9eea827853729ea /CHANGES | |
| parent | ae48242c81b849e5ef038592a6f4e5c595890376 (diff) | |
Rewrite CHANGES to add some commentary about the "pic" option
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'CHANGES')
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 22 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx] *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines - without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. The - only requirement for building dynamic engines is the presence of - the DSO module, so configuring "disable-dso" will automatically - disable dynamic engines. Dynamic engines are enabled by default, - and can be disabled with "disable-dynamic-engine". - This only applies to the engines in engines/, those in - crypto/engine/ will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static"). + without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This + only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/ + will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static"). + + Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use + the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine". + + The only requirements for building dynamic engines is the + presence of the DSO module and building with position independent + code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring + with "disable-dso" or "disable pic". The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are @@ -24,6 +28,10 @@ object files. This means other libraries that use routines from libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless of how OpenSSL was configured. + + If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic" + or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will + also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines. [Richard Levitte] *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use. |