4 fetchmail 6.3 changes relevant for packagers
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7 Greetings, dear packager!
9 The bullet points below mention a few useful hints for package(r)s:
11 - Please use OpenSSL and add --with-ssl to the ./configure command line.
12 SSL/TLS support hasn't been enabled in the default build in order to maintain
13 fetchmail 6.2 compatibility as far as possible. SSL/TLS however is a highly
14 recommended compilation option.
16 - Fetchmail now uses automake and supports all common automake targets and
17 overrides such as "make install-strip" or "DESTDIR=..." for staging areas.
19 - The fetchmailconf script has been renamed to fetchmailconf.py, automake will
20 install it into Python's top-level site-packages directory and byte-compile
21 it (so you need to package or remove fetchmailconf.pyc and fetchmailconf.pyo
24 - If you want to defeat Python byte-code compilation and would rather like to
25 install fetchmailconf.py yourself, you can add
29 to the ./configure command or pass this in the environment. This pretends
30 that no Python interpreter were installed.
32 - The Makefile generates a two-line "fetchmailconf" /bin/sh wrapper script that
33 executes the actual fetchmailconf.py with the python installation found at
34 configuration time, so that users can still type "fetchmailconf" rather than
35 "python fetchmailconf".
37 - Note that fetchmailconf.py supports a few command line arguments, so if you
38 use local wrapper scripts, be sure they pass on their own arguments properly.
39 Remember to use "$@" (with quotes) in shells, not $*.
41 - There is now a dummy fetchmailconf manual page which will just source (roff's
42 ".so" command) the fetchmail manual page for now. You can of course keep your
43 symlinks in place and ignore this dummy. IF you install the dummy and
44 compress your man pages, be sure to test "man fetchmailconf", on some
45 systems, you'll need to adjust the ".so" command to point to the compressed