On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 04:25:12PM +0200, Bodo Moeller wrote:
> When configured with, e.g., --prefix=/usr/local, OpenSSL will install
> the following files outside its own directory ($prefix/ssl by default,
> or whatever is specified with the --openssldir option):
>
> /tmp$ ls usr/local/bin usr/local/include usr/local/lib
> usr/local/bin/:
> CA.pl* c_hash* c_issuer* c_rehash* openssl*
> CA.sh* c_info* c_name* der_chop*
> [...] I dislike scattering a bunch of scripts over the $prefix/bin
> directory. [...] der_chop self-describes as "one total hack that
> Eric is really not proud of so don't look at it and don't ask for
> support".
> So I'd suggest installing only openssl and c_rehash in $prefix/bin
> and putting all the rest in some directory under $openssldir.
> The obvious choice for that directory would be $openssldir/bin,
> which however might be confusing given that the important openssl
> binary does _not_ end up in that directory.
Maybe $openssldir/dustbin would be appropriate? But seriously, I'll
have them installed in $openssldir/misc if no-one has a better idea.
("misc" because this does not correspond to a source code distribution
directory, while either of $openssldir/apps and $openssldir/tools
would appear to indicate that the directory content comes from the
source code directory of the same name, which would not be true unless
we create _two_ new directories under $openssldir, which is really too
much for these scripts.)
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