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diff --git a/README.maintainer b/README.maintainer index e9b238f6..12701fac 100644 --- a/README.maintainer +++ b/README.maintainer @@ -2,3 +2,53 @@ MAINTAINER NOTES ================ Text documents are edited with vim "set tw=79 ai fo=atrq1w2" options. + +As of 6.4.31, fetchmail dropped its manServer.pl and uses pandoc to convert +from roff/man to RST and then the Python docutils from RST to HTML. +Other ways (through asciidoc) generate more or less quirky output which +is of questionable portability. + +Debian testing and Ubuntu 18.04 minimum survival from Git checkout, 2021-12-04: +# apt update && apt upgrade -y +# apt install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential automake \ + gettext gitk autopoint bison flex ca-certificates openssh-client \ + netbase pkg-config bash libssl-dev git +Redistributing requires additional packages: +# apt install --no-install-recommends -y \ + man lynx htmldoc asciidoc libcarp-always-perl lzip rsync \ + python3-docutils pandoc + +$ git clone https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail.git fetchmail.git +$ cd fetchmail.git +$ autoreconf -if +$ mkdir -p _build && cd _build +$ ../configure +$ make check -j8 +$ make distcheck -j8 + +Alpine Linux (cannot build distribution due to lack of pandoc/htmldoc): +# apk add autoconf automake bison flex gettext gettext-dev gettext-lang git \ + build-base openssl3-dev openssh-client-default py3-docutils +Then continue with Debian's git clone ... above. + +Fedora Linux as of 34 cannot rebuild the distribution, it lacks HTMLDOC, +but as of F36, the F33 package still seems to work. +To install requisites: +# dnf install -y automake bison ca-certificates gettext-devel git pkg-config \ + openssl-devel vim-minimal findutils gcc make flex openssh-clients +then continue with the git clone... above. + +Arch Linux: +# pacman -Syu --noconfirm && pacman -S --noconfirm automake gcc autoconf flex \ + bison gettext ca-certificates pkg-config make git openssh +And for redistributing: +# pacman -S --noconfirm lynx htmldoc asciidoc lzip rsync perl-carp-always \ + perl-encode-locale python-docutils pandoc + +OpenSUSE Linux (Tumbleweed should work, Leap may not be fit for redistributing): +# zypper up -y +# zypper in -y automake autoconf gcc bison flex pkgconf-pkg-config \ + libopenssl-devel openssh git gcc gettext-tools tar make +And for redistributing: +# zypper in -y asciidoc lynx htmldoc perl-Carp-Always rsync lzip \ + perl-Encode-Locale pandoc python-docutils |