Option to Disable Documentation in Configure Script

[iguessthislldo]

I'm currently doing a build of OpenSSL as part of a build in Travis and I would like to reduce the overall time of the build. I see there is a no-tests option but I noticed that OpenSSL make and make install spends more time dealing with the documentation than the actual libraries. I think that's probably a good thing overall, but I don't need the documentation in this case and I don't see a no-docs or similar option.

[mspncp]

The install target is actually split into three subtargets:

openssl/Configurations/unix-Makefile.tmpl

Line 362 in 8269e44

install: install_sw install_ssldirs install_docs

So try make install_sw, this should save your day ;-)

[iguessthislldo]

@mspncp That should take most of the time off the ssl build, thanks!

[mspncp]

You're welcome. So can this issue be closed?

Side note: If you are building OpenSSL only as third party library and not expecting errors from building it, you might want to consider speeding it up further by doing a parallel build and install (e.g. make -j8 and make -j8 install). Parallel builds used to be not entirely safe, but this was fixed only recently in #7583.

[iguessthislldo]

Yes, I'm closing it. Thanks for the tip, but I'm already using -j N. As for the safety warning, I'm using 1.1.1a so I'm assuming I have that fix.

[mspncp]

I'm using 1.1.1a so I'm assuming I have that fix.

Yes, #7583 was merged to 1.1.1 in commit 201a33f before 1.1.1a was released.

[levitte]

Parallel builds used to be not entirely safe,

Parallel installs

[mspncp]

Yeah, that’s what I meant to say. :-)