automatic load of dynamic engines.  Make the changes in the main
Makefile so the engines are built, but now in the engines/ directory.

Note: The changes in step 12 have all been made by Geoff Thorpe.
Credit where credit is due.

helper makefile that generalises our way of building shared libraries
and is designed to take care of almost anything (I hope).

PR: 253, last part.

Use mv to make sure the old copy is unlinked instead of overwritten.
PR: 273, and probably others...

GNU ld comes first, checking the usage of collect2 gives that instead of
GNU ld, even if GNU ld would be the one that would get used if we link using
gcc.  It's much better, apparently, to ask gcc directly what the path to
GNU ld is (provided it's there at all and gcc knows about it), and ask
the result if it's a GNU or not.  The bonus is that our GNU ld detection
mechanism got shorter and easier to understand...

needed, call 'pod2man' directly if this works

PR: 217

variable doesn't already contain a -f argument.
PR: 203, part 4

Additional changes:
 - use EC_GROUP_get_degree() in apps/req.c
 - add ECDSA and ECDH to apps/speed.c
 - adds support for EC curves over binary fields to ECDSA
 - new function EC_KEY_up_ref() in crypto/ec/ec_key.c
 - reorganize crypto/ecdsa/ecdsatest.c
 - add engine support for ECDH
 - fix a few bugs in ECDSA engine support

Submitted by: Douglas Stebila <douglas.stebila@sun.com>

Part of PR 181

Part of PR 181

This should complete PR 75

other platforms.
Submitted by:
Reviewed by:
PR: 134

handled properly.
Part of PR 75

Make sure to use the predefined PERL.
Submitted by: Bernhard Simon <bs@bsws.zid.tuwien.ac.at>
Reviewed by:
PR:

argument list length. This requires Gnu-tar. As we use the non-standard
"tardy" software anyway, it doesn't hurt too much to require Gnu-tar.
"make dist" will probably only be used by team-members anyway.

PR: 81

Deal with that by testing any available pod2man and using it if appropriate,
and falling back to util/pod2man.pl if none was found.

PR: 30

Submitted by: bryanh@giraffe-data.com
Reviewed by:
PR: [openssl.org #18]

Currently only on GNUish linkers...
Submitted by Steven Bade <sbade@austin.ibm.com>

Submitted by: Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>

CygWin 1.3.x, which includes thread and shared library support.

Submitted by Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> and modified a
little bit.

extensions to link together, there's no point looping at all.

automatically.