Allow DSO flags like -fpic, -fPIC, -KPIC etc. to be specified on the `perl

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  Changes between 0.9.1c and 0.9.2
 
+  *) Allow DSO flags like -fpic, -fPIC, -KPIC etc. to be specified
+     on the `perl Configure ...' command line. This way one can compile
+     OpenSSL libraries with Position Independent Code (PIC) which is needed
+     for linking it into DSOs.
+     [Ralf S. Engelschall]
+
+  *) Remarkably, export ciphers were totally broken and no-one had noticed!
+     Fixed.
+     [Ben Laurie]
+
+  *) Cleaned up the LICENSE document: The official contact for any license
+     questions now is the OpenSSL core team under openssl-core@openssl.org.
+     And add a paragraph about the dual-license situation to make sure people
+     recognize that _BOTH_ the OpenSSL license _AND_ the SSLeay license apply
+     to the OpenSSL toolkit.
+     [Ralf S. Engelschall]
+
+  *) General source tree makefile cleanups: Made `making xxx in yyy...'
+     display consistent in the source tree and replaced `/bin/rm' by `rm'.
+     Additonally cleaned up the `make links' target: Remove unnecessary
+     semicolons, subsequent redundant removes, inline point.sh into mklink.sh
+     to speed processing and no longer clutter the display with confusing
+     stuff. Instead only the actually done links are displayed.
+     [Ralf S. Engelschall]
+
+  *) Permit null encryption ciphersuites, used for authentication only. It used
+     to be necessary to set the preprocessor define SSL_ALLOW_ENULL to do this.
+     It is now necessary to set SSL_FORBID_ENULL to prevent the use of null
+     encryption.
+     [Ben Laurie]
+
+  *) Add a bunch of fixes to the PKCS#7 stuff. It used to sometimes reorder
+     signed attributes when verifying signatures (this would break them), 
+     the detached data encoding was wrong and public keys obtained using
+     X509_get_pubkey() weren't freed.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Add text documentation for the BUFFER functions. Also added a work around
+     to a Win95 console bug. This was triggered by the password read stuff: the
+     last character typed gets carried over to the next fread(). If you were 
+     generating a new cert request using 'req' for example then the last
+     character of the passphrase would be CR which would then enter the first
+     field as blank.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
+  *) Added the new `Includes OpenSSL Cryptography Software' button as
+     doc/openssl_button.{gif,html} which is similar in style to the old SSLeay
+     button and can be used by applications based on OpenSSL to show the
+     relationship to the OpenSSL project.  
+     [Ralf S. Engelschall]
+
+  *) Remove confusing variables in function signatures in files
+     ssl/ssl_lib.c and ssl/ssl.h.
+     [Lennart Bong <lob@kulthea.stacken.kth.se>]
+
+  *) Don't install bss_file.c under PREFIX/include/
+     [Lennart Bong <lob@kulthea.stacken.kth.se>]
+
+  *) Get the Win32 compile working again. Modify mkdef.pl so it can handle
+     functions that return function pointers and has support for NT specific
+     stuff. Fix mk1mf.pl and VC-32.pl to support NT differences also. Various
+     #ifdef WIN32 and WINNTs sprinkled about the place and some changes from
+     unsigned to signed types: this was killing the Win32 compile.
+     [Steve Henson]
+
   *) Add new certificate file to stack functions, SSL_add_cert_file_to_stack()
      and SSL_add_cert_dir_to_stack(). These largely supplant
      SSL_load_client_CA_file(), and can be used to add multiple certs easily to
@@ -175,7 +240,7 @@
      vectors if you have them.
      [Ben Laurie]
 
-  *) Correct caclulation of key length for export ciphers (too much space was
+  *) Correct calculation of key length for export ciphers (too much space was
      allocated for null ciphers). This has not been tested!
      [Ben Laurie]