From: Richard Levitte Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:17:33 +0000 (+0200) Subject: INSTALL: clarify OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_1_1_1-pre1~3607 X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf98d9dab5a03b59ca45333b74ba51f58f57243b INSTALL: clarify OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR Reviewed-by: Rich Salz --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 3655eb7b3f..93ae3c1d3a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -786,13 +786,19 @@ OPENSSL_LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR OpenSSL comes with a database of information about how it - should be built on different platforms. This information is - held in ".conf" files in the Configurations directory. See the + should be built on different platforms as well as build file + templates for those platforms. The database is comprised of + ".conf" files in the Configurations directory. The build + file templates reside there as well as ".tmpl" files. See the file Configurations/README for further information about the - format of ".conf" files. As well as the standard ".conf" files - it is possible to create your own ".conf" files and store them - locally, outside the OpenSSL source tree. This environment - variable can be set to the directory where these files are held. + format of ".conf" files as well as information on the ".tmpl" + files. + In addition to the standard ".conf" and ".tmpl" files, it is + possible to create your own ".conf" and ".tmpl" files and store + them locally, outside the OpenSSL source tree. This environment + variable can be set to the directory where these files are held + and will have Configure to consider them in addition to the + standard ones. PERL The name of the Perl executable to use when building OpenSSL.