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@@ -39,32 +39,4 @@ CryptGenRandom on Windows). This engine is **active** by default when importing
the OpenSSL backend. It is added to the engine list but not activated if you
only import the binding.
-
-Using your own OpenSSL on Linux
--------------------------------
-
-Python links to OpenSSL for its own purposes and this can sometimes cause
-problems when you wish to use a different version of OpenSSL with cryptography.
-If you want to use cryptography with your own build of OpenSSL you will need to
-make sure that the build is configured correctly so that your version of
-OpenSSL doesn't conflict with Python's.
-
-The options you need to add allow the linker to identify every symbol correctly
-even when multiple versions of the library are linked into the same program. If
-you are using your distribution's source packages these will probably be
-patched in for you already, otherwise you'll need to use options something like
-this when configuring OpenSSL::
-
- ./config -Wl,--version-script=openssl.ld -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIC shared
-
-You'll also need to generate your own ``openssl.ld`` file. For example::
-
- OPENSSL_1.0.1F_CUSTOM {
- global:
- *;
- };
-
-You should replace the version string on the first line as appropriate for your
-build.
-
.. _`OpenSSL`: https://www.openssl.org/