+ then the following subdirectories:
+
+ certs Initially empty, this is the default location
+ for certificate files.
+ misc Various scripts.
+ private Initially empty, this is the default location
+ for private key files.
+
+ If you didn't chose a different installation prefix, the
+ following additional subdirectories will be created:
+
+ bin Contains the openssl binary and a few other
+ utility programs.
+ include/openssl Contains the header files needed if you want to
+ compile programs with libcrypto or libssl.
+ lib Contains the OpenSSL library files themselves.
+
+ Package builders who want to configure the library for standard
+ locations, but have the package installed somewhere else so that
+ it can easily be packaged, can use
+
+ $ make INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/package-root install
+
+ (or specify "--install_prefix=/tmp/package-root" as a configure
+ option). The specified prefix will be prepended to all
+ installation target filenames.
+
+
+ NOTE: The header files used to reside directly in the include
+ directory, but have now been moved to include/openssl so that
+ OpenSSL can co-exist with other libraries which use some of the
+ same filenames. This means that applications that use OpenSSL
+ should now use C preprocessor directives of the form
+
+ #include <openssl/ssl.h>
+
+ instead of "#include <ssl.h>", which was used with library versions
+ up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b.
+
+ If you install a new version of OpenSSL over an old library version,
+ you should delete the old header files in the include directory.
+
+ Compatibility issues:
+
+ * COMPILING existing applications
+
+ To compile an application that uses old filenames -- e.g.
+ "#include <ssl.h>" --, it will usually be enough to find
+ the CFLAGS definition in the application's Makefile and
+ add a C option such as
+
+ -I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl
+
+ to it.
+
+ But don't delete the existing -I option that points to
+ the ..../include directory! Otherwise, OpenSSL header files
+ could not #include each other.
+
+ * WRITING applications
+
+ To write an application that is able to handle both the new
+ and the old directory layout, so that it can still be compiled
+ with library versions up to OpenSSL 0.9.2b without bothering
+ the user, you can proceed as follows:
+
+ - Always use the new filename of OpenSSL header files,
+ e.g. #include <openssl/ssl.h>.
+
+ - Create a directory "incl" that contains only a symbolic
+ link named "openssl", which points to the "include" directory
+ of OpenSSL.
+ For example, your application's Makefile might contain the
+ following rule, if OPENSSLDIR is a pathname (absolute or
+ relative) of the directory where OpenSSL resides:
+
+ incl/openssl:
+ -mkdir incl
+ cd $(OPENSSLDIR) # Check whether the directory really exists
+ -ln -s `cd $(OPENSSLDIR); pwd`/include incl/openssl
+
+ You will have to add "incl/openssl" to the dependencies
+ of those C files that include some OpenSSL header file.
+
+ - Add "-Iincl" to your CFLAGS.
+
+ With these additions, the OpenSSL header files will be available
+ under both name variants if an old library version is used:
+ Your application can reach them under names like <openssl/foo.h>,
+ while the header files still are able to #include each other
+ with names of the form <foo.h>.
+
+
+ Note on multi-threading
+ -----------------------
+
+ For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what compiler options
+ are needed to generate a library that is suitable for multi-threaded
+ applications. On these systems, support for multi-threading is enabled
+ by default; use the "no-threads" option to disable (this should never be
+ necessary).
+
+ On other systems, to enable support for multi-threading, you will have
+ to specify at least two options: "threads", and a system-dependent option.
+ (The latter is "-D_REENTRANT" on various systems.) The default in this
+ case, obviously, is not to include support for multi-threading (but
+ you can still use "no-threads" to suppress an annoying warning message
+ from the Configure script.)