From: Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 12:47:57 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: mention using `--with-openssl`
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doc: mention using `--with-openssl`

Fixes #225
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diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md
index 1d6be2b1..18615397 100644
--- a/BUILDING.md
+++ b/BUILDING.md
@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ You can disable this with `--without-dev`, or `without-udev`.
 NOTE: in Gentoo at least, `sys-fs/udev` as provided by systemd leaks memory
 `sys-fs/eudev`, the fork of udev does not and as such is recommended.
 
+## crypto
+dhcpcd ships with some cryptographic routines taken from various upstreams.
+These are routinely monitored and try to be as up to date as possible.
+You can optionally configure dhcpcd with `--with-openssl` to use libcrypto
+to use these instead.
+This is not enabled by default, even if libcrypto is found because libcrypto
+generally lives in /usr and dhcpcd in /sbin which could be a separate
+filesystem.
 
 ## Importing into another source control system
 To import the full sources, use the import target.