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-$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.1 2004/10/06 14:12:40 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.3 2005/08/30 10:07:58 ph10 Exp $
 
 THE EXIM MAIL TRANSFER AGENT VERSION 4
 --------------------------------------
 
-Copyright (c) 1995 - 2004 University of Cambridge.
+Copyright (c) 1995 - 2005 University of Cambridge.
 See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution.
 
 There is a book about Exim by Philip Hazel called "The Exim SMTP Mail Server",
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ to which Exim has already been ported, the building process is as follows:
   comments in exim_monitor/EDITME about the values set therein, but in this
   case everything can be defaulted if you wish.
 
+. If your system is not POSIX compliant by default, then you might experience
+  fewer problems if you help point the build tools to the POSIX variants. For
+  instance, on Solaris:
+
+  PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH make SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh
+
 . Type "make". This will determine what your machine's architecture and
   operating system are, and create a build directory from those names (e.g.
   "build-SunOS5-sparc"). Symbolic links are created from the build directory
@@ -342,4 +348,4 @@ GNU/Hurd doesn't (at the time of writing, June 1999) have the ioctls for
 finding out the IP addresses of the local interfaces. You therefore have to set
 local_interfaces yourself. Otherwise it will treat only 127.0.0.1 as local.
 
-Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+Philip Hazel