X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=85e266019111962378b7720b30685fa13654116f;hp=4be793db0dd65c7e36b1fe9a1c05a75e8d81b547;hb=f8ea4757cc76fa49231d1118bb2214d4463003c1;hpb=c58d983e3b981a49ed386e34b8c0bec05e45067b diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4be793db0d..85e2660191 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ standard headers). If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, please report the problem to (note that your message will be recorded in the request tracker publicly readable - via http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html and will be forwarded to a + via http://www.openssl.org/support/rt.html and will be forwarded to a public mailing list). Include the output of "make report" in your message. Please check out the request tracker. Maybe the bug was already reported or has already been fixed. @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". Please send a bug report to , including the output of "make report" in order to be added to the request tracker at - http://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html. + http://www.openssl.org/support/rt.html. 4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with @@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ compile programs with libcrypto or libssl. lib Contains the OpenSSL library files themselves. + Use "make install_sw" to install the software without documentation, + and "install_docs_html" to install HTML renditions of the manual + pages. + 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 @@ -302,10 +306,10 @@ 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. + Shared libraries have certain caveats. Binary backward compatibility + can't be guaranteed before OpenSSL version 1.0. The only reason to + use them would be to conserve memory on systems where several programs + are using OpenSSL. For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl. On these systems,