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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-11-29 13:23:07 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2017-12-08 00:36:21 +0100
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parent89bea0830de908c6713166ff376ab767b91a2dfd (diff)
Document the possibility for command line argument env assignments
Reviewed-by: Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4818)
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passed through as they are to the compiler as well. Again,
consult your compiler documentation.
+ VAR=value
+ Assignment if environment variable for Configure. These
+ work just like normal environment variable assignments,
+ but are supported on all platforms and are confined to
+ the configuration scripts only. These assignments override
+ the corresponding value in the inherited environment, if
+ there is one.
+
Installation in Detail
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