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authorAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2016-09-09 23:45:57 +0200
committerAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>2016-09-13 13:22:28 +0200
commit758baa3dc250f12b92b1bebe86ad114f25763c04 (patch)
tree6d0ead8b535a791960fef6c6cf7a87bf704a4928 /INSTALL
parent77a6be4dfc2ecf406c2559a99bea51317ce0f533 (diff)
Configure: impose ^X on whole build procedure.
Traditionally Configure passed $ENV{PERL} to Makefile. But this resulted in ambiguilty as Configure script could be executed by interpreter different from one executing remaining scripts. Since we separate compile- and run-time interpreters with HASHBANGPERL variable, there is no reason to segment the build procedure. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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@@ -812,6 +812,9 @@
PERL
The name of the Perl executable to use when building OpenSSL.
+ This variable is used in config script only. Configure on the
+ other hand imposes the interpreter by which it itself was
+ executed on the whole build procedure.
HASHBANGPERL
The command string for the Perl executable to insert in the