Commit d74dfafd authored by Richard Levitte's avatar Richard Levitte
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Refresh the thinking of --prefix and --openssldir 



--prefix is now exclusively used for software and manual installation.
--openssldir is not exclusively used as a default location for certs,
keys and the default openssl.cnf.

This change is made to bring clarity, to have the two less
intertwined, and to be more compatible with the usual ways of software
installation.

Please change your habits and scripts to use --prefix rather than
--openssldir for installation location now.

Reviewed-by: default avatarViktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>
parent dd67493c

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 Changes between 1.0.2e and 1.1.0  [xx XXX xxxx]



  *) To clarify their intended purposes, the Configure options

     --prefix and --openssldir change their semantics, and become more

     straightforward and less interdependent.



     --prefix shall be used exclusively to give the location INSTALLTOP

     where programs, scripts, libraries, include files and manuals are

     going to be installed.  The default is now /usr/local.



     --openssldir shall be used exclusively to give the default

     location OPENSSLDIR where certificates, private keys, CRLs are

     managed.  This is also where the default openssl.cnf gets

     installed.

     If the directory given with this option is a relative path, the

     values of both the --prefix value and the --openssldir value will

     be combined to become OPENSSLDIR.

     The default for --openssldir is INSTALLTOP/ssl.



     Anyone who uses --openssldir to specify where OpenSSL is to be

     installed MUST change to use --prefix instead.

     [Richard Levitte]



  *) The GOST engine was out of date and therefore it has been removed. An up

     to date GOST engine is now being maintained in an external repository.

     See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries. Libssl still retains

Configure

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@@ -21,10 +21,15 @@ my $usage="Usage: Configure [no-<cipher> ...] [enable-<cipher> ...] [experimenta 
# --config      add the given configuration file, which will be read after

#               any "Configurations*" files that are found in the same

#               directory as this script.

# --openssldir  install OpenSSL in OPENSSLDIR (Default: DIR/ssl if the

#               --prefix option is given; /usr/local/ssl otherwise)

# --prefix      prefix for the OpenSSL include, lib and bin directories

#               (Default: the OPENSSLDIR directory)

# --prefix      prefix for the OpenSSL installation, which includes the

#               directories bin, lib, include, share/man, share/doc/openssl

#               This becomes the value of INSTALLTOP in Makefile

#               (Default: /usr/local)

# --openssldir  OpenSSL data area, such as openssl.cnf, certificates and keys.

#               If it's a relative directory, it will be added on the directory

#               given with --prefix.

#               This becomes the value of OPENSSLDIR in Makefile and in C.

#               (Default: PREFIX/ssl)

#

# --install_prefix  Additional prefix for package builders (empty by

#               default).  This needn't be set in advance, you can
@@ -1056,8 +1061,6 @@ my $IsMK1MF=scalar grep /^$target$/,@MK1MF_Builds; 
$exe_ext=".exe" if ($target eq "Cygwin" || $target eq "DJGPP" || $target =~ /^mingw/);

$exe_ext=".nlm" if ($target =~ /netware/);

$exe_ext=".pm"  if ($target =~ /vos/);

$openssldir="/usr/local/ssl" if ($openssldir eq "" and $prefix eq "");

$prefix=$openssldir if $prefix eq "";



$default_ranlib= &which("ranlib") or $default_ranlib="true";

$perl=$ENV{'PERL'} or $perl=&which("perl5") or $perl=&which("perl")
@@ -1066,11 +1069,10 @@ my $make = $ENV{'MAKE'} || "make"; 


$cross_compile_prefix=$ENV{'CROSS_COMPILE'} if $cross_compile_prefix eq "";



chop $openssldir if $openssldir =~ /\/$/;

chop $prefix if $prefix =~ /.\/$/;



$openssldir=$prefix . "/ssl" if $openssldir eq "";

$openssldir=$prefix . "/" . $openssldir if $openssldir !~ /(^\/|^[a-zA-Z]:[\\\/])/;

$prefix = "/usr/local" if !$prefix;

$openssldir = "ssl" if !$openssldir;

$openssldir = catdir($prefix, $openssldir)

    unless file_name_is_absolute($openssldir);





print "IsMK1MF=$IsMK1MF\n";

Makefile.in

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# for, say, /usr/ and yet have everything installed to /tmp/somedir/usr/.

# Normally it is left empty.

INSTALL_PREFIX=

INSTALLTOP=/usr/local/ssl



# Do not edit this manually. Use Configure --openssldir=DIR to change this!

OPENSSLDIR=/usr/local/ssl

# Do not edit these manually. Use Configure with --prefix or --openssldir

# to change this!  Short explanation in the top comment in Configure

INSTALLTOP=/usr/local

OPENSSLDIR=$(INSTALLTOP)/ssl



# NO_IDEA - Define to build without the IDEA algorithm

# NO_RC4  - Define to build without the RC4 algorithm
@@ -153,12 +154,12 @@ TESTS = alltests 


MAKEFILE= Makefile



MANDIR=$(OPENSSLDIR)/man

MANDIR=$(INSTALLTOP)/share/man

MAN1=1

MAN3=3

MANSUFFIX=

HTMLSUFFIX=html

HTMLDIR=$(OPENSSLDIR)/html

HTMLDIR=$(INSTALLTOP)/share/doc/$(BASENAME)/html

SHELL=/bin/sh



TOP=    .

NEWS

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      o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version

        to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.

      o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication

      o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation

        directory location rather than --openssldir.  The latter becomes

        the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.



  Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]

util/mk1mf.pl

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use Cwd;



$INSTALLTOP="/usr/local/ssl";

$INSTALLTOP="/usr/local";

$OPENSSLDIR="/usr/local/ssl";

$OPTIONS="";

$ssl_version="";