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authorRichard Levitte <richard@levitte.org>2016-01-21 14:43:51 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <richard@levitte.org>2016-01-22 23:12:22 +0100
commitd36ab9ce9a984684d9cffb60bca5d072ed5279d7 (patch)
tree260b6cb2a6e62f25491e3c4e77ed1c98dc786897 /INSTALL
parent632b3092807db45251711e39dcd7d55a16d12957 (diff)
Refactor file writing - information on our use of Perl and Perl modules
This includes a start on how to install missing modules. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
To install OpenSSL, you will need:
* make
- * Perl 5 with core modules (see 'Note on Perl' further down)
+ * Perl 5 with core modules (please read README.PERL)
+ * The perl module Text::Template (please read README.PERL)
* an ANSI C compiler
* a development environment in form of development libraries and C
header files
@@ -310,26 +311,6 @@
with names of the form <foo.h>.
- Note on Perl
- ------------
-
- For our scripts, we rely quite a bit on Perl, and increasingly on
- some core Perl modules. These Perl modules are part of the Perl
- source, so if you build Perl on your own, you should be set.
-
- However, if you install Perl as binary packages, the outcome might
- differ, and you may have to check that you do get the core modules
- installed properly. We do not claim to know them all, but experience
- has told us the following:
-
- - on Linux distributions based on Debian, the package 'perl' will
- install the core Perl modules as well, so you will be fine.
- - on Linux distributions based on RPMs, you will need to install
- 'perl-core' rather than just 'perl'.
-
- It is highly recommended that you have at least Perl version 5.12
- installed.
-
Note on multi-threading
-----------------------