Remove inet6-apps hints for IPv6 support.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=4079

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 38 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c332fc11..54b9f46c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
-		INSTALL Instructions for fetchmail
+INSTALL Instructions for fetchmail
+==================================
 
-If you have installed binaries (e.g. from an RPM) you can skip to step 5.
-
-If you are a Linux system packager, be aware that the build process generates
-an RPM spec file at fetchmail.spec, and you can "make rpm" to generate an
-RPM and SRPM.
+If you have installed binaries (e.g. from a Linux RPM or DPKG, Solaris
+package or FreeBSD port), you can skip to step 5.
 
 The Frequently Asked Questions list, included as the file FAQ in this
-distributions, answers the most common questions about configuring and 
+distributions, answers the most common questions about configuring and
 running fetchmail.
 
 1. USEFUL THINGS TO INSTALL FIRST
@@ -26,17 +24,18 @@ you should install OPIE.  You need version 2.32 or better.
 The OPIE library sources are available at http://www.inner.net/pub/opie/
 You can also find OPIE and IPV6-capable servers there.
 
-Building in IPv6 support *requires* glibc 2.1.1 (or newer) or 
-that Craig Metz's inet6-apps kit be installed.
-The IPsec patches *requires* inet6-apps kit.;
-the IPsec patches require that the kit be built with network
-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).
+Building in IPv6 support *requires* an up-to-date operating system.
+Recent Linux versions with glibc 2.1.1 or newer, FreeBSD, Solaris should
+be fine.
+
+The IPsec code *requires* the inet6-apps kit, which used to be available
+from ftp.ipv6.inner.net:/pub/ipv6 (via IPv6) or ftp.inner.net /pub/ipv6
+(via IPv4), but the software has been withdrawn, so we're sorry, no
+advanced IPsec support at this time.
+
+If you have trouble with intl or gettext functions, try using the
+configure option `--with-included-gettext'.
 
-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
 
@@ -44,13 +43,13 @@ 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). 
+(If your gettext is old, you may need to include the
+--with-included-gettext option).
 
 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 
-variable CC before you run configure.  
+(e.g. you have gcc but want to compile with cc), set the environment
+variable CC before you run configure.
 
 The configure script accepts certain standard configuration options.
 These include --prefix, --exec-prefix, --bindir, --infodir, --mandir,
@@ -79,13 +78,15 @@ Hooks for the OpenSSL library (see http://www.openssl.org/) are
 included in the distribution.  To enable these, configure with
 --with-ssl; they are not included in the standard build.
 
-If you want to build for debugging, 
+If you want to build for debugging,
 
 	CFLAGS=-g LDFLAGS=" " ./configure
 
 will do that.
 
-To specify a fallback MUA in case local port 25 doesn't respond, do one of:
+To specify a fallback MUA in case local port 25 doesn't respond, this is
+not recommended, because you'll usually see differences between MTA and
+MDA use. If you wish to proceed nonetheless, do one of:
 
 	configure --enable-fallback=procmail
 	configure --enable-fallback=sendmail
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ A disadvantage of using procmail is that local alias expansion
 according to /etc/aliases won't get done if we fall back to it.
 
 Advanced configuration:
-
+-----------------------
 Specifying --with-kerberos=DIR or --with-kerberos5=DIR will tell the
 fetchmail build process to look in DIR for Kerberos support.
 Configure normally looks in /usr/kerberos and /usr/athena; if you
@@ -111,27 +112,18 @@ want to add -lresolv or whatever to the definition of LOADLIBS.
 
 It is also possible to explicitly condition out the support for
 POP3, IMAP, and ETRN (with configure arguments of --disable-POP3,
---disable-IMAP, and --disable-ETRN respectively).  However, none
-of these wins back more that 3 to 4K on an Intel box.
+--disable-IMAP, and --disable-ETRN respectively).
 
-If you're running QNX, edit the distributed Makefile directly.  The
-QNX values for various macros are there but commented out; all you
-have to do is uncomment them.
 
-3. MAKE 
-
-You may find you need flex at version 2.5.3 or greater to build
-fetchmail.  The stock lex distributed with some versions of Linux does
-not work -- it yields a parser which core-dumps on syntax errors.  You
-can get flex at the GNU ftp site, ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu.
+3. MAKE
 
 Run
 
 	make
 
 This should compile fetchmail for your system.  If fetchmail fails to build
-properly, see the FAQ section B on build-time problems.  Note: parallelized
-make (e.g. make -j 4) fails due to some weirdness in the yacc productions.
+properly, see the FAQ section B on build-time problems.
+
 
 4. INSTALL
 
@@ -143,10 +135,15 @@ This will install fetchmail.  By default, fetchmail will be installed
 in /usr/local/bin, with the man page in /usr/local/man/man1.  You can
 use the configure options --bindir and --mandir to change these.
 
+If you are tight on disk space, you can run instead
+
+	make install-strip
+
 NOTE: If you are using an MTA other than sendmail (such as qmail,
 exim, or smail), see the FAQ (section T) for discussion of any special
 configuration steps that may be necessary.
 
+
 5. SET UP A RUN CONTROL FILE
 
 See the man page for a description of how to configure your individual
@@ -154,6 +151,7 @@ preferences.
 
 If you're upgrading from popclient, see question F4 in the FAQ file.
 
+
 6. TEST
 
 I strongly recommend that your first fetchmail run use the -v, -a and -k
@@ -168,16 +166,21 @@ Cyrus IMAP server from CMU.  This covers all the servers commonly
 hosted on Linux and *BSD systems.  It also works with the IMAP service
 of Microsoft Exchange, despite the fact that Microsoft Exchange is
 extremely broken (returns incorrect message lengths in LIST
-responses).  
+responses).
 
 See the FAQ, section S, for detailed advice on running with various
 servers.
 
+
 7. REPORTING BUGS
 
 You should read the FAQ file question G3 before reporting a bug.
 
+
 8. USE IT
 
 Once you've verified your configuration, you can start fetchmail to
 run in background and forget about it.  Enjoy!
+
+
+END of text file INSTALL