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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-10-27 08:44:36 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2016-11-03 13:13:31 +0100 |
commit | b5b7c61fe337e2b5be931f42ce6f827ff344f3f6 (patch) | |
tree | 9fe0621ff1980f9e7d31b9029472f606df6dfa37 /test/build.info | |
parent | ab6e147c49f2382d2c30e313dd99aa23f66bc563 (diff) |
Explain the deal with internal test programs
Reviewed-by: Emilia Käsper <emilia@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1789)
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/test/build.info b/test/build.info index 1c10a83c09..6f00865868 100644 --- a/test/build.info +++ b/test/build.info @@ -299,6 +299,21 @@ IF[{- !$disabled{tests} -}] DEPEND[cipher_overhead_test]=../libcrypto ../libssl ENDIF + # Internal test programs. These are essentially a collection of internal + # test routines. Because they sometimes need to reach internal symbols that + # aren't available through the shared library (at least on Linux, Solaris, + # Windows and VMS, where the exported symbols are those listed in util/*.num), + # these programs may be built on files directly picked from inside crypto/ + # or ssl/, to test using symbols that exist in those specific files. These + # programs will also be linked with libcrypto / libssl, so we don't pick + # out more specific files than necessary. + # This might mean we have multiply defined symbols, but since linking is + # ordered with object files first and libraries after, the symbols from the + # object files will be chosen before those in the libraries. This is handled + # properly by all linkers. + # Note that when building with static libraries, none of those extra files + # are needed, since all symbols are available anyway, regardless of what's + # listed in util/*.num. IF[{- !$disabled{poly1305} -}] PROGRAMS_NO_INST=poly1305_internal_test ENDIF |