From 58177615563efd88a7c87787b3fd14462c4287cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:18:37 +0000 Subject: Eliminate some installation headaches. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1053 --- INSTALL | 13 ------------- NEWS | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 67515aac..263bf2c0 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -40,14 +40,6 @@ Run This should compile fetchmail for your system. -Some makes (on AIX and HPUX and possibly elsewhere) choke on the YACC -grammar dependencies. If this happens to you, install the free GNU -make program and throw away your native one, it's broken. - -If linking fails to resolve atexit(), go find a compiler that isn't lying -about being ANSI-compliant (such as gcc). Some SunOS users have had this -problem. - 3. INSTALL Lastly, become root and run @@ -83,11 +75,6 @@ This software is known to work with the qpop/popper series of freeware POP3 servers; also with the IMAP2bis and IMAP4 servers that are distributed with Pine from the University of Washington. -A couple of users have reported that some recent (post-2.7.2) versions -of gcc seem to have an optimizer bug that affects fetchmail. If your -fetchmail core dumps (especially near startup) try recompiling without --O. Alternatively, you can drop back to gcc 2.7.2 or below. - 6. REPORTING BUGS You should read the FAQ file question G1 before reporting a bug. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b7d2eaf3..24f241e9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ every user entry in a multi-user poll declaration. pl 3.9.7 (): * Complain and die if user tries to start fetchmail with options while a background fetchmail is running. +* Various installation headaches are gone, INSTALL edited accordingly. + +There are 257 people on the fetchmail-friends list. pl 3.9.6 (Wed May 28 18:28:35 EDT 1997): * Fix the libc6 configuration stuff (thanks to Jesse Thilo). -- cgit v1.2.3