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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2021-12-05 18:58:56 +0100
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2021-12-05 18:58:56 +0100
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Minor documentation tweaks around wolfSSL/LibreSSL
-rw-r--r--INSTALL3
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--configure.ac2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a1d6ab28..4edc0c0d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ See README.SSL for details.
Forked libraries deriving from OpenSSL and under the SSLeay or OpenSSL license
cannot be used due to licensing issues, and are not supported.
This affects, f.i., LibreSSL, unless it is part of the operating system
-(f. i., on OpenBSD).
+(f. i., on OpenBSD). However, LibreSSL diverges from OpenSSL and is
+not supported by the fetchmail maintainer.
Since 6.4.25, there is experimental support for wolfSSL 5.0.0 or newer,
which is under GNU GPL v2 or later license and hence may be easier for
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ba53bb4f..049e07b4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@ fetchmail-6.4.25.rc4 (release candidate issued 2021-12-03, 31641 LoC):
* Added an example systemd unit file and instructions to contrib/systemd/
which runs fetchmail as a daemon with 5-minute poll intervals.
Courteously contributed by Barak A. Pearlmutter, Debian Bug#981464.
-
-# CHANGES:
* fetchmail can now be used with wolfSSL 5's OpenSSL compatibility layer,
see INSTALL and README.SSL. This is considered experimental.
Feedback solicited.
+
+# CHANGES:
* The getstats.py dist-tool now counts lines of .ac and .am files.
* ./configure --with-ssl now supports pkg-config module names, too. See INSTALL.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7cacff99..ec568a2b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(KERBEROS_V4_ENABLE, test "$KERBEROS_V4" = 1)
openssldefault=yes
AC_ARG_WITH(wolfssl,
[AS_HELP_STRING([--with-wolfssl={DIR|no}],
- [Use wolfSSL and its OpenSSL compatibility layer])],
+ [EXPERIMENTAL: Use wolfSSL and its OpenSSL compatibility layer])],
[with_wolfssl=$withval], [with_wolfssl=no])
if test "$with_wolfssl" != "no" ; then
if test -x "$WOLFSSL_CONFIG" ; then