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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-11-30 21:48:04 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-12-08 00:36:21 +0100
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Document how the configuration option 'reconf' works
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4818)
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the corresponding value in the inherited environment, if
there is one.
+ reconf
+ reconfigure
+ Reconfigure from earlier data. This fetches the previous
+ command line options and environment from data saved in
+ "configdata.pm", and runs the configuration process again,
+ using these options and environment.
+ Note: NO other option is permitted together with "reconf".
+ This means that you also MUST use "./Configure" (or
+ what corresponds to that on non-Unix platforms) directly
+ to invoke this option.
+ Note: The original configuration saves away values for ALL
+ environment variables that were used, and if they weren't
+ defined, they are still saved away with information that
+ they weren't originally defined. This information takes
+ precedence over environment variables that are defined
+ when reconfiguring.
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