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-rw-r--r--INSTALL5
-rw-r--r--Makefile.in9
-rw-r--r--NEWS2
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 133678c6..361df92b 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
INSTALL Instructions for fetchmail
+If you have installed binaries (e.g. from an RPM) you can skip to step 4.
+
+If you are a Linux system packager, be aware that the build process generates
+an RPM spec file at fetchmail.spec.
+
1. CONFIGURE
Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type:
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index ecfea794..0871ced8 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ srcs = $(srcdir)/socket.c $(srcdir)/getpass.c $(srcdir)/pop2.c \
.SUFFIXES:
.SUFFIXES: .o .c .h .y .l .ps .dvi .info .texi
-all: fetchmail
+all: fetchmail fetchmail.spec
+
check: # No tests.
depend:
test -f config.h || touch config.h
@@ -162,6 +163,8 @@ $(infodir)/fetchmail.info: fetchmail.info
$(mandir)/$(instname).$(manext): fetchmail.man
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/fetchmail.man $@
+fetchmail.spec: Makefile.in
+ specgen.sh $(VERS) >fetchmail.spec
.PHONY: clean realclean distclean mostlyclean
clean:
@@ -172,7 +175,7 @@ distclean: clean
-rm -f Makefile config.h
-rm -f config.cache config.status config.log stamp-config
-rm -f TAGS tags
- -rm -f fetchmail.log fetchmail.toc fetchmail.*aux
+ -rm -f fetchmail.log fetchmail.toc fetchmail.*aux fetchmail.spec
realclean: distclean # fetchmail.info*
@@ -208,7 +211,7 @@ docs = $(srcdir)/COPYING $(srcdir)/README $(srcdir)/INSTALL $(srcdir)/NEWS \
$(srcdir)/*.man $(srcdir)/sample.rcfile
config = $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/configure.in $(srcdir)/configure \
$(srcdir)/config.guess $(srcdir)/config.h.in $(srcdir)/config.sub
-scripts = $(srcdir)/install.sh $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs
+scripts = $(srcdir)/install.sh $(srcdir)/mkinstalldirs $(srcdir)/specgen.sh
all = $(docs) $(config) $(srcs) $(parser) $(headers) $(extra) $(scripts) \
$(srcdir)/MANIFEST
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a4d590d4..abe20ddb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ features --
* Normal progress notifications now take only 1 line per message, not 2.
+* Linux packagers: building fetchmail now generates an RPM specfile for it.
+
bugs --
* Fix buggy getopt specification of P and p options.