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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2016-03-08 13:53:07 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2016-03-08 15:42:41 +0100
commit5bb9e2b48b67f6217f7394ea6947b5ff5b8c4e39 (patch)
treed091ff5613af65c84f50222412de6e24da826bdb /INSTALL
parent1316ca80f4e1dc9339572c780d495f995fe0bad0 (diff)
Tweak some more information in INSTALL
The summary on how to add configs and how Makefile et al wasn't quite correct any more. Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eed3e22bff..a96eb8ffe2 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -193,12 +193,17 @@
$ ./Configure linux-elf [options]
- If your system is not available, you will have to edit the Configure
- program and add the correct configuration for your system. The
- generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
- systems.
+ If your system isn't listed, you will have to create a configuration
+ file named Configurations/{something}.conf and add the correct
+ configuration for your system. See the available configs as examples
+ and read Configurations/README and Configurations/README.design for
+ more information.
- Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.in and
+ The generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
+ Unix-like systems.
+
+ Configure creates a build file ("Makefile" on Unix and "descrip.mms"
+ on OpenVMS) from a suitable template in Configurations, and
defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from
crypto/opensslconf.h.in).
@@ -287,7 +292,7 @@
You can find the list of available tests like this:
$ make list-tests # Unix
- $ make list-tests ! OpenVMS
+ $ mms list-tests ! OpenVMS
Have a look at the manual for the perl module Test::Harness to
see what other HARNESS_* variables there are.