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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-08-31 21:17:33 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-08-31 21:19:19 +0200 |
commit | bf98d9dab5a03b59ca45333b74ba51f58f57243b (patch) | |
tree | 2660e58c2777ac6c0b3fe09b90eca049411f1ad8 /INSTALL | |
parent | d63c12c697faa4e2fa0e5d7565521a5813c86415 (diff) |
INSTALL: clarify OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -786,13 +786,19 @@ OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR OpenSSL comes with a database of information about how it - should be built on different platforms. This information is - held in ".conf" files in the Configurations directory. See the + should be built on different platforms as well as build file + templates for those platforms. The database is comprised of + ".conf" files in the Configurations directory. The build + file templates reside there as well as ".tmpl" files. See the file Configurations/README for further information about the - format of ".conf" files. As well as the standard ".conf" files - it is possible to create your own ".conf" files and store them - locally, outside the OpenSSL source tree. This environment - variable can be set to the directory where these files are held. + format of ".conf" files as well as information on the ".tmpl" + files. + In addition to the standard ".conf" and ".tmpl" files, it is + possible to create your own ".conf" and ".tmpl" files and store + them locally, outside the OpenSSL source tree. This environment + variable can be set to the directory where these files are held + and will have Configure to consider them in addition to the + standard ones. PERL The name of the Perl executable to use when building OpenSSL. |