NAME
version - print OpenSSL version information
SYNOPSIS
openssl version [-a] [-v] [-b] [-o] [-f] [-p]
DESCRIPTION
This command is used to print out version information about OpenSSL.
OPTIONS
- -a
-
all information, this is the same as setting all the other flags.
- -v
-
the current OpenSSL version.
- -b
-
the date the current version of OpenSSL was built.
- -o
-
option information: various options set when the library was built.
- -c
-
compilation flags.
- -p
-
platform setting.
- -d
-
OPENSSLDIR setting.
NOTES
The output of openssl version -a would typically be used when sending in a bug report.
OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011 built on: 2012-05-23 04:31:02.000000000 +0000 platform: linux-elf options: bn(64,32) rc4(4x,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) blowfish(idx) compiler: gcc -fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -fmessage-length=0 -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g -Wa,--noexecstack -fomit-frame-pointer -DTERMIO -DPURIFY -DSSL_FORBID_ENULL -Wall -fstack-protector -Wa,--noexecstack -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_PART_WORDS -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM -DAES_ASM -DWHIRLPOOL_ASM OPENSSLDIR: "/etc/ssl"
HISTORY
The -d option was added in OpenSSL 0.9.7.
