Patch imported from bugzilla 1031. Axel Rau.

[users/jgh/exim.git] / src / README

diff --git a/src/README b/src/README
index d14e87cd17b8978e8b733baff5eb31d0bcf32be3..972d417c8923e83ad4cd37f02d8f9eadef9ae574 100644 (file)
--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.2 2005/01/04 10:00:42 ph10 Exp $
-
 THE EXIM MAIL TRANSFER AGENT VERSION 4
 --------------------------------------
 
@@ -80,6 +78,12 @@ 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
@@ -327,7 +331,7 @@ also need to add a new alias definition: "alias utf8 utf-8".
 
 2. For some strange reason make will fail at building "exim_dbmbuild" when
    called the first time. However simply calling make a second time will solve
-   the problem. Alternatively, run "make makfile" and then "make".
+   the problem. Alternatively, run "make makefile" and then "make".
 
 
 ******* IMPORTANT FOR ULTRIX USERS *******
@@ -342,4 +346,4 @@ 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