From 9de94148780d4b84765849896d831be62b30fc33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Levitte Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:16:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite CHANGES to add some commentary about the "pic" option Reviewed-by: Rich Salz --- CHANGES | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 66e653e58d..3baef73171 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ Changes between 1.0.2f and 1.1.0 [xx XXX xxxx] *) Configuration change; it's now possible to build dynamic engines - without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. The - only requirement for building dynamic engines is the presence of - the DSO module, so configuring "disable-dso" will automatically - disable dynamic engines. Dynamic engines are enabled by default, - and can be disabled with "disable-dynamic-engine". - This only applies to the engines in engines/, those in - crypto/engine/ will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static"). + without having to build shared libraries and vice versa. This + only applies to the engines in engines/, those in crypto/engine/ + will always be built into libcrypto (i.e. "static"). + + Building dynamic engines is enabled by default; to disable, use + the configuration option "disable-dynamic-engine". + + The only requirements for building dynamic engines is the + presence of the DSO module and building with position independent + code, so they will also automatically be disabled if configuring + with "disable-dso" or "disable pic". The macros OPENSSL_NO_STATIC_ENGINE and OPENSSL_NO_DYNAMIC_ENGINE are also taken away from openssl/opensslconf.h, as they are @@ -24,6 +28,10 @@ object files. This means other libraries that use routines from libcrypto / libssl can be made into shared libraries regardless of how OpenSSL was configured. + + If this isn't desirable, the configuration options "disable-pic" + or "no-pic" can be used to disable the use of PIC. This will + also disable building shared libraries and dynamic engines. [Richard Levitte] *) Removed JPAKE code. It was experimental and has no wide use. -- 2.34.1