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| author | Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> | 2018-02-01 13:22:48 -0500 |
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| committer | Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> | 2018-02-01 13:22:48 -0500 |
| commit | 3c5a61dd0f9d9a9eac098419bcaf47d1c296ca81 (patch) | |
| tree | 614596820eb1a0405358a338b7e2e7dfff488f7e /doc/man7 | |
| parent | 67c836e860c735cf1b039ef52973237fd26b74d6 (diff) | |
Add OPENSSL_VERSION_AT_LEAST
added macro to create version number
use the macro to build OPENSSL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(maj,min,fix) so that
customers of libssl (such as ruby-openssl) do not need to be so aware of
openssl version numbers.
includes updates to ssl(7) and OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER(3) man page
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5212)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/ssl.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/ssl.pod b/doc/man7/ssl.pod index 724fc78b17..066b32508f 100644 --- a/doc/man7/ssl.pod +++ b/doc/man7/ssl.pod @@ -89,6 +89,12 @@ includes both more private SSL headers and headers from the B<crypto> library. Whenever you need hard-core details on the internals of the SSL API, look inside this header file. +OPENSSL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(major,minor) can be +used in C<#if> statements in order to determine which version of the library is +being used. This can be used to either enable optional features at compile +time, or work around issues with a previous version. +See L<OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER(3)>. + =item B<ssl2.h> Unused. Present for backwards compatibility only. |