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| author | Richard Levitte <richard@levitte.org> | 2016-01-21 14:43:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <richard@levitte.org> | 2016-01-22 23:12:22 +0100 |
| commit | d36ab9ce9a984684d9cffb60bca5d072ed5279d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 260b6cb2a6e62f25491e3c4e77ed1c98dc786897 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 632b3092807db45251711e39dcd7d55a16d12957 (diff) | |
Refactor file writing - information on our use of Perl and Perl modules
This includes a start on how to install missing modules.
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 23 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 21 deletions
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ To install OpenSSL, you will need: * make - * Perl 5 with core modules (see 'Note on Perl' further down) + * Perl 5 with core modules (please read README.PERL) + * The perl module Text::Template (please read README.PERL) * an ANSI C compiler * a development environment in form of development libraries and C header files @@ -310,26 +311,6 @@ with names of the form <foo.h>. - Note on Perl - ------------ - - For our scripts, we rely quite a bit on Perl, and increasingly on - some core Perl modules. These Perl modules are part of the Perl - source, so if you build Perl on your own, you should be set. - - However, if you install Perl as binary packages, the outcome might - differ, and you may have to check that you do get the core modules - installed properly. We do not claim to know them all, but experience - has told us the following: - - - on Linux distributions based on Debian, the package 'perl' will - install the core Perl modules as well, so you will be fine. - - on Linux distributions based on RPMs, you will need to install - 'perl-core' rather than just 'perl'. - - It is highly recommended that you have at least Perl version 5.12 - installed. - Note on multi-threading ----------------------- |