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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-03-19 07:18:56 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2018-03-19 07:18:56 +0100
commitec4c389108c2c5bcd96cf4125ec2f715523dab7b (patch)
tree49b4411c661159e725f528b96df7f0615b05a1be /INSTALL
parent00c8f1b05cd5e815d21e51737505e901d572e09c (diff)
downloadopenssl-new-ec4c389108c2c5bcd96cf4125ec2f715523dab7b.tar.gz
Clarify a couple of details around "make variables"
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5660)
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CPPDEFINES List of CPP macro definitions, separated
by a platform specific character (':' or
space for Unix, ';' for Windows, ',' for
- VMS). This can be used in place of -D.
+ VMS). This can be used instead of using
+ -D (or what corresponds to that on your
+ compiler) in CPPFLAGS.
CPPINCLUDES List of CPP inclusion directories, separated
the same way as for CPPDEFINES. This can
- be used in place of -I.
+ be used instead of -I (or what corresponds
+ to that on your compiler) in CPPFLAGS.
HASHBANGPERL Perl invocation to be inserted after '#!'
- in public perl scripts.
+ in public perl scripts (only relevant on
+ Unix).
LD The program linker (not used on Unix, $(CC)
is used there).
LDFLAGS Flags for the shared library, DSO and