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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2001-10-02 07:54:55 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2001-10-02 07:54:55 +0000
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Recommend new gettext.
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@@ -34,12 +34,19 @@ security API support enabled. The kit can be gotten from
ftp.ipv6.inner.net:/pub/ipv6 (via IPv6) or ftp.inner.net
/pub/ipv6 (via IPv4).
+Fetchmail has had serious grief from buggy versions of the gettext suite.
+If your version is older than 1.10.40, you should use the configure
+option `--with-included-gettext'.
+
2. CONFIGURE
Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type:
./configure
+(If your getext is old, you need to include the --with-included-gettext
+option, which I recommend anyway).
+
The autoconfiguration script will spend a bit of time figuring out the
specifics of your system. If you want to specify a particular compiler
(e.g. you have gcc but want to compile with cc), set the environment