From: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:53:07 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Tweak some more information in INSTALL
X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_0-pre4~243
X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5bb9e2b48b67f6217f7394ea6947b5ff5b8c4e39;hp=1316ca80f4e1dc9339572c780d495f995fe0bad0

Tweak some more information in INSTALL

The summary on how to add configs and how Makefile et al wasn't quite
correct any more.

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eed3e22bff..a96eb8ffe2 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -193,12 +193,17 @@
 
        $ ./Configure linux-elf [options]
 
-     If your system is not available, you will have to edit the Configure
-     program and add the correct configuration for your system. The
-     generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
-     systems.
+     If your system isn't listed, you will have to create a configuration
+     file named Configurations/{something}.conf and add the correct
+     configuration for your system. See the available configs as examples
+     and read Configurations/README and Configurations/README.design for
+     more information.
 
-     Configure creates the file Makefile.ssl from Makefile.in and
+     The generic configurations "cc" or "gcc" should usually work on 32 bit
+     Unix-like systems.
+
+     Configure creates a build file ("Makefile" on Unix and "descrip.mms"
+     on OpenVMS) from a suitable template in Configurations, and
      defines various macros in crypto/opensslconf.h (generated from
      crypto/opensslconf.h.in).
 
@@ -287,7 +292,7 @@
      You can find the list of available tests like this:
 
        $ make list-tests                                # Unix
-       $ make list-tests                                ! OpenVMS
+       $ mms list-tests                                 ! OpenVMS
 
      Have a look at the manual for the perl module Test::Harness to
      see what other HARNESS_* variables there are.