Allow the syntax of the .include directive to optionally have '='

[openssl.git] / doc / man5 / config.pod

diff --git a/doc/man5/config.pod b/doc/man5/config.pod
index 275d96c29db7f0a69fa3d6375b4f115d4a65ded3..3d0842c4e2d88d48f0d8737c297c464f81a25560 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man5/config.pod
+++ b/doc/man5/config.pod
@@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ working directory so unless the configuration file containing the
 B<.include> directive is application specific the inclusion will not
 work as expected.
 
+There can be optional B<=> character and whitespace characters between
+B<.include> directive and the path which can be useful in cases the
+configuration file needs to be loaded by old OpenSSL versions which do
+not support the B<.include> syntax. They would bail out with error
+if the B<=> character is not present but with it they just ignore
+the include.
+
 Each section in a configuration file consists of a number of name and
 value pairs of the form B<name=value>