In most cases we expect that people will be using shared libraries not
static ones, therefore we make that the default.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Update the config options documentation based on feedback.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

There were a lot of options missing from INSTALL. This adds descriptions
for them.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

- on VMS, SYS$COMMON:[SSL] is already used as installation directory
  by HP SSL, so we make our default for --openssldir
  SYS$COMMON:[OPENSSL-COMMON] instead.
- Updated notes on default installation dirs fir Unix and Windows
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

On Windows, we set INSTALLTOP to default as follows:

  VC-WIN32:

    PREFIX:     %ProgramFiles(x86)%\OpenSSL
    OPENSSLDIR: %CommonProgramFiles(x86)%\SSL

  VC-WIN64*:

    PREFIX:     %ProgramW6432%\OpenSSL
    OPENSSLDIR: %CommonProgramW6432%\SSL

Should those environment variables be missing, the following is used
as fallback:

    PREFIX:     %ProgramFiles%\OpenSSL
    OPENSSLDIR: %CommonProgramFiles%\SSL
Reviewed-by: NAndy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org>

A few things were out of date and a few things were missing. Also some
formatting updates.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

The summary on how to add configs and how Makefile et al wasn't quite
correct any more.
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

Because of the unified scheme, building on different platforms is very
similar.  We currently have Unix and OpenVMS on the unified scheme,
which means that a separate INSTALL.VMS is no longer needed.
Reviewed-by: NMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>

INSTALL_PREFIX is a confusing name, as there's also --prefix.
Instead, tag along with the rest of the open source world and adopt
the Makefile variable DESTDIR to designate the desired staging
directory.

The Configure option --install_prefix is removed, the only way to
designate a staging directory is with the Makefile variable (this is
also implemented for VMS' descrip.mms et al).
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

Fixes for the auto-init/deinit code based on review comments
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Provide some man pages for auto-init/deinit. Also update the INSTALL
documentation for information on the new Configure options implemented as
part of this.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

This includes a start on how to install missing modules.
Reviewed-by: NRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>

The windows installation instructions were very out of date. Substantial
update to the text. Remove a lot of historical stuff that isn't relevant
any more, and merge the win64 and win32 instructions into one file.
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Create Makefile's from Makefile.in
Rename Makefile.org to Makefile.in
Rename Makefiles to Makefile.in
Address review feedback from Viktor and Richard
Reviewed-by: NViktor Dukhovni <viktor@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: NRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>

Reviewed-by: NMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>

These notes include the use of HARNESS_VERBOSE (see the manual for
Test::Harness) and the method to enumerate specific tests to run.
Reviewed-by: NEmilia Käsper <emilia@openssl.org>

Reviewed-by: NEmilia Käsper <emilia@openssl.org>

PR: 1661

wording (can't really call shared libs experimental after several years in the major Linux distributions)

Submitted by: Oliver Tappe <zooey@hirschkaefer.de>

PR: 780
Submitted by: Verdon Walker <VWalker@novell.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Levitte

PR: 437

Add instructions in INSTALL, for easy access.
PR: 437

Submitted by: assar@kth.se
Reviewed by:
PR: 390

Submitted by:
Reviewed by:
PR: 285

(noted by Jonathan Louie <jlouie@recourse.com>).

decompression.  It can be set up to link at link time or to load the
zlib library at run-time.

environment were a part of a Unix operating systems, but these days
you see an increasing number of installations that do not necessarely
have these crucial parts by default, so it's needs mentioning.