From 6b22ccb2aeeff16c4b3f01fbc5a5a41f09323de7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roy Marples Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 13:47:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention using `--with-openssl` Fixes #225 --- BUILDING.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index 1d6be2b18..186153976 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ You can disable this with `--without-dev`, or `without-udev`. NOTE: in Gentoo at least, `sys-fs/udev` as provided by systemd leaks memory `sys-fs/eudev`, the fork of udev does not and as such is recommended. +## crypto +dhcpcd ships with some cryptographic routines taken from various upstreams. +These are routinely monitored and try to be as up to date as possible. +You can optionally configure dhcpcd with `--with-openssl` to use libcrypto +to use these instead. +This is not enabled by default, even if libcrypto is found because libcrypto +generally lives in /usr and dhcpcd in /sbin which could be a separate +filesystem. ## Importing into another source control system To import the full sources, use the import target.