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diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 01c360e8d4..d6ef21d20e 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -1666,6 +1666,13 @@ most UNIX/Linux systems), and Windows threads. No other threading models are supported. If your platform does not provide pthreads or Windows threads then you should use `Configure` with the `no-threads` option. +For pthreads, all locks are non-recursive. In addition, in a debug build, +the mutex attribute `PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK` is used. If this is not +available on your platform, you might have to add +`-DOPENSSL_NO_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK` to your `Configure` invocation. +(On Linux `PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK` is an enum value, so a built-in +ifdef test cannot be used.) + Notes on shared libraries ------------------------- |