Commit 2c879241 authored by Andy Polyakov's avatar Andy Polyakov
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NOTES.UNIX: add "Linking your application" paragraph



... and mention more runtime search path flags.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6587)
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 Every Unix system has its own set of default locations for shared
 libraries, such as /lib, /usr/lib or possibly /usr/local/lib.  If
 libraries are installed in non-default locations, dynamically linked
 binaries will not find them and therefore fail to run unless they get a
 bit of help from a defined runtime shared library search path.
 binaries will not find them and therefore fail to run, unless they get
 a bit of help from a defined runtime shared library search path.

 For OpenSSL's application (the 'openssl' command), our configuration
 scripts do NOT generally set the runtime shared library search path for
 you.  It's therefore advisable to set it explicitly when configuring
 you.  It's therefore advisable to set it explicitly when configuring,
 unless the libraries are to be installed in directories that you know
 to be in the default list.

@@ -42,14 +42,15 @@
 Possible options to set the runtime shared library search path include
 the following:

    -Wl,-rpath,/whatever/path
    -R /whatever/path
    -rpath /whatever/path
    -Wl,-rpath,/whatever/path	# Linux, *BSD, etc.
    -R /whatever/path		# Solaris
    -Wl,-R,/whatever/path	# AIX (-bsvr4 is passed internally)
    -Wl,+b,/whatever/path	# HP-UX
    -rpath /whatever/path	# Tru64, IRIX

 OpenSSL's configuration scripts recognise all these options and pass
 them to the Makefile that they build.  (In fact, it recognises anything
 starting with '-Wl,' as a linker option, so for example, HP-UX'
 '-Wl,+b,/whatever/path' would be used correctly)
 them to the Makefile that they build. (In fact, all arguments starting
 with '-Wl,' are recognised as linker options.)

 Please do not use verbatim directories in your runtime shared library
 search path!  Some OpenSSL config targets add an extra directory level
@@ -89,3 +90,28 @@

    $ ./config --prefix=/usr/local/ssl --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl \
        '-Wl,--enable-new-dtags,-rpath,$(LIBRPATH)'

 It might be worth noting that some/most ELF systems implement support
 for runtime search path relative to the directory containing current
 executable, by interpreting $ORIGIN along with some other internal
 variables. Consult your system documentation.

 Linking your application
 ------------------------

 Third-party applications dynamically linked with OpenSSL (or any other)
 shared library face exactly the same problem with non-default locations.
 The OpenSSL config options mentioned above might or might not have bearing
 on linking of the target application. "Might" means that under some
 circumstances it would be sufficient to link with OpenSSL shared library
 "naturally", i.e. with -L/whatever/path -lssl -lcrypto. But there are
 also cases when you'd have to explicitly specify runtime search path
 when linking your application. Consult your system documentation and use
 above section as inspiration...

 Shared OpenSSL builds also install static libraries. Linking with the
 latter is likely to require special care, because linkers usually look
 for shared libraries first and tend to remain "blind" to static OpenSSL
 libraries. Referring to system documentation would suffice, if not for
 a corner case. On AIX static libraries (in shared build) are named
 differently, add _a suffix to link with them, e.g. -lcrypto_a.