From 4f2eec60c28986d529fc2fff10d2a64e161a101c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 23:09:12 +0100 Subject: Add some info in CHANGES about what's happening so far with Configure et al Reviewed-by: Viktor Dukhovni --- CHANGES | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'CHANGES') diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index b3647bf878..0114269bbb 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Configuration and writing out the results from it has changed. + Files such as Makefile include/openssl/opensslconf.h and are now + produced through general templates, such as Makefile.in and + crypto/opensslconf.h.in and some help from the perl module + Text::Template. + + Also, the center of configuration information is no longer + Makefile. Instead, Configure produces a perl module in + configdata.pm which holds most of the config data (in the hash + table %config), the target data that comes from the target + configuration in one of the Configurations/*.conf files (in + %target). + [Richard Levitte] + *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more straightforward and less interdependent. -- cgit v1.2.3