Add the new PROBLEMS section from HEAD

[oweals/openssl.git] / INSTALL

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@@ -128,8 +128,11 @@
      the failure that aren't problems in OpenSSL itself (like missing
      standard headers).  If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, please
      report the problem to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org> (note that your
-     message will be forwarded to a public mailing list).  Include the
-     output of "make report" in your message.
+     message will be recorded in the request tracker publicly readable
+     via http://www.openssl.org/rt2.html and will be forwarded to a public
+     mailing list). Include the output of "make report" in your message.
+     Please check out the request tracker. Maybe the bug was already
+     reported or has already been fixed.
 
      [If you encounter assembler error messages, try the "no-asm"
      configuration option as an immediate fix.]
@@ -147,7 +150,8 @@
      try removing any compiler optimization flags from the CFLAGS line
      in Makefile.ssl and run "make clean; make". Please send a bug
      report to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org>, including the output of
-     "make report".
+     "make report" in order to be added to the request tracker at
+     http://www.openssl.org/rt2.html.
 
   4. If everything tests ok, install OpenSSL with
 
@@ -269,6 +273,11 @@
  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