Commit c1c97165 authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Make an extra note about shared libraries and backward compatibility.

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 Note on shared libraries
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 Shared library is currently an experimental feature.  The only reason to
 have them would be to conserve memory on systems where several program
 are using OpenSSL.  Binary backward compatibility can't be guaranteed
 before OpenSSL version 1.0.

 For some systems, the OpenSSL Configure script knows what is needed to
 build shared libraries for libcrypto and libssl.  On these systems,
 the shared libraries are currently not created by default, but giving