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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 9263e8bb..96f869ad 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -71,13 +71,14 @@ you can direct the build to look for GSSAPI support under DIR.
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,
-
- CFLAGS=-g LDFLAGS=" " ./configure
-
-will do that.
+--with-ssl; they are not included in the standard build. Fetchmail's
+configure script will probe some default locations for the
+include/openssl/ssl.h file. If this doesn't work (i. e. configure prints
+"SSL support enabled, but OpenSSL not found" and aborts), you need to
+give the explicit prefix of your OpenSSL installation (specify the
+directory that contains OpenSSL's "include" subdirectory), for instance:
+"--with-ssl=/example/path" would assume that you have an
+/example/path/include/openssl/ssl.h header file.
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