Eliminate some installation headaches.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1053

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 67515aac..263bf2c0 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ Run
 
 This should compile fetchmail for your system.
 
-Some makes (on AIX and HPUX and possibly elsewhere) choke on the YACC
-grammar dependencies.  If this happens to you, install the free GNU
-make program and throw away your native one, it's broken.
-
-If linking fails to resolve atexit(), go find a compiler that isn't lying
-about being ANSI-compliant (such as gcc).  Some SunOS users have had this
-problem.
-
 3. INSTALL
 
 Lastly, become root and run
@@ -83,11 +75,6 @@ This software is known to work with the qpop/popper series of
 freeware POP3 servers; also with the IMAP2bis and IMAP4 servers that are
 distributed with Pine from the University of Washington.  
 
-A couple of users have reported that some recent (post-2.7.2) versions
-of gcc seem to have an optimizer bug that affects fetchmail.  If your
-fetchmail core dumps (especially near startup) try recompiling without
--O.  Alternatively, you can drop back to gcc 2.7.2 or below.
-
 6. REPORTING BUGS
 
 You should read the FAQ file question G1 before reporting a bug.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b7d2eaf3..24f241e9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ every user entry in a multi-user poll declaration.
 pl 3.9.7 ():
 * Complain and die if user tries to start fetchmail with options while a
   background fetchmail is running. 
+* Various installation headaches are gone, INSTALL edited accordingly.
+
+There are 257 people on the fetchmail-friends list.
 
 pl 3.9.6 (Wed May 28 18:28:35 EDT 1997):
 * Fix the libc6 configuration stuff (thanks to Jesse Thilo).