From 73141e94bf337327d22e884303dee278d862f718 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: levitte <levitte>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 01:43:11 +0000
Subject: Make an extra note about shared libraries and backward compatibility.

---
 INSTALL | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'INSTALL')

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 21bff884a..6634316cc 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@
  Note on shared libraries
  ------------------------
 
+ 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
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