Implement failover for ubsec. Submitted by Subramanian Ramamoorthy

[openssl.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 21bff884aafe8744a45429658dc6da27580a6a43..7eaa8147c3b8563699d5e51ed9f3428ee6bd9c14 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@
                 This will usually require additional system-dependent options!
                 See "Note on multi-threading" below.
 
+  no-zlib       Don't try to build with support for zlib compression and
+                decompression.
+
+  zlib          Build with support for zlib compression/decompression.
+
+  zlib-dynamic  Like "zlib", but has OpenSSL load the zlib library dynamically
+                when needed.  This is only supported on systems where loading
+                of shared libraries is supported.  This is the default choice.
+
   no-shared     Don't try to create shared libraries.
 
   shared        In addition to the usual static libraries, create shared
@@ -269,6 +278,11 @@
  Note on shared libraries
  ------------------------
 
+ Shared library is currently an experimental feature.  The only reason to
+ have them would be to conserve memory on systems where several program
+ are using OpenSSL.  Binary backward compatibility can't be guaranteed
+ before OpenSSL version 1.0.
+
  For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
  build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl.  On these systems,
  the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving