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| author | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2021-08-10 17:07:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> | 2021-08-13 10:45:44 +0200 |
| commit | bd32bdb8b2a0f98d99b21e1b4d68dfaf1bd5584d (patch) | |
| tree | 10d5f6de4b0383904e2e80d6df726e1d7c7039b8 /INSTALL.md | |
| parent | 254957f768a61c91c14d89566224173d0831c2ce (diff) | |
Add documentation about the multilib postfix and libdir
Fixes #16244
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Belyavskiy <beldmit@gmail.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16281)
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 202a66885e..c717dfcdf0 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -350,9 +350,13 @@ Directories The name of the directory under the top of the installation directory tree (see the `--prefix` option) where libraries will be installed. By default -this is `lib/`. Note that on Windows only static libraries (`*.lib`) will +this is `lib`. Note that on Windows only static libraries (`*.lib`) will be stored in this location. Shared libraries (`*.dll`) will always be -installed to the `bin/` directory. +installed to the `bin` directory. + +Some build targets have a multilib postfix set in the build configuration. +For these targets the default libdir is `lib<multilib-postfix>`. Please use +`--libdir=lib` to override the libdir if adding the postfix is undesirable. ### openssldir |