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| author | Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> | 2019-09-21 00:14:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> | 2019-10-13 17:24:16 +0200 |
| commit | df22cbb555430b7206a8d30cb41f4e28b9e28370 (patch) | |
| tree | b7d01e58300ae6f89ff93a876527e9323e0693f1 /INSTALL | |
| parent | bc458b0dd00acf8114dee7e4ac6423288a570697 (diff) | |
Configure: accept Windows style compiler options
Currently the Configure command only supports passing UNIX style
options (`-opt`) to the compiler. Passing Windows style options
(`/opt`) yields an error. Fortunately, the compiler accepts both
types of options, nevertheless this commit fixes that discrimination
of Windows users.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9961)
(cherry picked from commit f246f54f18d380791cc60be4aea0fbc7253a9a20)
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -608,10 +608,19 @@ Take note of the VAR=value documentation below and how these flags interact with those variables. - -xxx, +xxx + -xxx, +xxx, /xxx Additional options that are not otherwise recognised are - passed through as they are to the compiler as well. Again, - consult your compiler documentation. + passed through as they are to the compiler as well. + Unix-style options beginning with a '-' or '+' and + Windows-style options beginning with a '/' are recognized. + Again, consult your compiler documentation. + + If the option contains arguments separated by spaces, + then the URL-style notation %20 can be used for the space + character in order to avoid having to quote the option. + For example, -opt%20arg gets expanded to -opt arg. + In fact, any ASCII character can be encoded as %xx using its + hexadecimal encoding. Take note of the VAR=value documentation below and how these flags interact with those variables. |