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@@ -66,11 +66,6 @@ configure option '--with-included-gettext'. Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type: - ./configure --with-ssl - -if you have OpenSSL (and its developer packages, if separate) installed -on your system, or if you don't or do not need SSL/TLS support: - ./configure The autoconfiguration script will spend a bit of time figuring out the @@ -80,7 +75,7 @@ variable CC before you run configure. The configure script accepts certain standard configuration options. These include --prefix, --exec-prefix, --bindir, --infodir, --mandir, -and --srcdir. Do 'configure --help' for more. +and --srcdir. Run 'configure --help' for more. POP2 support is no longer compiled in by default, as POP2 is way obsolete and there don't seem to be any live servers for it anymore. You can @@ -102,15 +97,14 @@ locations (/usr, /usr/local). If you set --with-GSSAPI=DIR 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. 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. +included in the distribution. Fetchmail 6.4 enables these by default. +Fetchmail's configure script will query pkg-config (pkgconf) or failing that, +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. 2.2 Advanced options @@ -142,6 +136,13 @@ Run This should compile fetchmail for your system. If fetchmail fails to build properly, see the FAQ section B on build-time problems. +On multi-core computers, run + + make -j8 + +on a computer that supports 8 CPU threads at the same time (for instance, +Octocore computers or Quad-core computers supporting two threads per core). + 4. INSTALL |