Merged from silc_1_0_branch.

[silc.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 7fc09ca41363040325e9f5f3d420c81759116713..9871e92e93a7683fa78bfb5fd16f22f55455ce5c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ file for more generic installation instructions.
 library instead of using the MPI library included in the package, you can
 give the --with-gmp[=DIR] option to the `configure'.  The DIR is the upper
 path in your system which contains lib/ and include/ for GMP library.
+   Note that MPI is the prefered arbitrary precision arithmetic library and
+GMP can be used as a fall-back if you have problems with the MPI library
+included within this package (GMP was used as a default library in the past).
 
 '--with-iconv[=DIR]'
 
@@ -46,6 +49,11 @@ package or does not want to use them, you can give the --disable-asm
 option to the `configure' script.  This will assure that assembler
 optimized code is not compiled in.
 
+`--enabled-shared'
+
+   If you wish to compile and install shared libraries then enable this
+option.  By default all libraries are compiled as static libraries.
+
 `--enable-debug'
 
    If you would like to enable the debugging for the compiled programs