To make it less surprising and confusing, leave a message on configdata.pm
This message will ONLY be visible in OpenSSL 1.1.1, it will not show
in 1.1.1a or any other release or update.
@@ -2554,6 +2554,17 @@ my %builders = (
$builders{$builder}->($builder_platform, @builder_opts);
+# Show a note on the use of configdata.pm, but ONLY for release 1.1.1
+# (i.e. this message disappears with the following update, 1.1.1a)
+print <<"EOF" if ($config{version_num} =~ m|^0x1010100.L$|);
+
+NOTE: Starting with OpenSSL 1.1.1, 'Configure' doesn't display all the disabled
+options or the "make variables" with their values. Instead, you must use
+'configdata.pm' as a script to get a display of the configuration data. For
+help, please do this:
+
+ perl configdata.pm --help
+EOF
print <<"EOF" if ($disabled{threads} eq "unavailable");
The library could not be configured for supporting multi-threaded
