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index e74ff552b1..629597db10 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ If the configure script complains that you don't have a library that
you know you have installed, it usually means either that you've
installed things into multiple prefixes (see the bits on GNOME_PATH
below) or (if you're on Linux) that you installed the "foo" package
-but forgot the "foo-devel" package.
+but forgot the "foo-devel" or "foo-dev" packages.
HOW TO BUILD EVOLUTION
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ the libraries it depends on stabilize, and there's nothing we can do
to make it any easier until then.
-General Principles
+GENERAL PRINCIPLES
------------------
First you have to decide whether you want to install Evolution (and
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ type:
gnome-config --sysconfdir
and remember the answers, and pass them to "configure" or "autogen.sh"
-when building the other packages you need. Eg:
+when building the other packages you need. For example:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ when building the other packages you need. Eg:
If you build in another prefix instead, you will need to set the
GNOME_PATH environment variable (and ACLOCAL_FLAGS as well if building
-from CVS) to include the prefix you install into. Eg:
+from CVS) to include the prefix you install into. For example:
export GNOME_PATH=/usr/local
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"
@@ -89,10 +89,13 @@ such as /evolution, that you also need to make sure to put
${prefix}/bin in your PATH and ${prefix}/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
-Dependencies
+DEPENDENCIES
------------
-All of these libraries are available in GNOME CVS, under the given
+GNOME LIBRARIES
+---------------
+
+The following libraries are available in GNOME CVS, under the given
names. Most (but not all) of them are also available as tarballs on
ftp.gnome.org. The (*)ed packages are available in Ximian GNOME
(http://www.ximian.com/desktop/) Other packages may be available from
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ the Ximian GNOME evolution preview mirror.
If installing from packages, remember that you need both the runtime
and -devel packages for each library.
- - xml-i18n-tools - lates from xml-i18n-tools-stable-1-x branch in
+ - xml-i18n-tools - latest from xml-i18n-tools-stable-1-x branch in
GNOME CVS (0.8.2 is too old)
- scrollkeeper - 0.1.4 or later (*)
@@ -145,13 +148,17 @@ and -devel packages for each library.
- gtkhtml - later than 0.11.0
+
+3RD PARTY DEPENDENCIES
+----------------------
+
- Berkeley's libdb - 3.1.17
- db3 is available from www.sleepycat.com. Make sure to get 3.1.17,
- it isn't the newest version.
+ db3 is available from http://www.sleepycat.com. Make sure to get
+ 3.1.17, it isn't the latest version.
-Compiling Berkeley DB
+COMPILING BERKELEY DB
---------------------
If you don't have 3.1.17 installed on your system or Evolution doesn't
@@ -166,19 +173,19 @@ it without messing up your system installation.
    e.g: NOT evolution/db-3.1.17
  * Compile according to instructions, but installing into some custom
-    prefix, e.g:
+    prefix, for example:
      ../dist/configure --prefix=/home/user/berkeleydb-3.1.17
  * Autogen Evolution specifying that it has to look for the DB
-    library there, eg.:
+    library there, for example:
      ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome
      --with-db3-includes=/home/user/berkeleydb-3.1.17/include
      --with-db3-libs=/home/user/berkeleydb-3.1.17/lib
-Compiling Palm Pilot support
+COMPILING PALM PILOT SUPPORT
----------------------------
If you want support for PalmPilot syncing (currently experimental so
@@ -191,17 +198,20 @@ http://www.pilot-link.org
http://www.eskil.org/gnome-pilot/
3) evolution
-in your evo source dir do ./autogen.sh --prefix=<evo-prefix>
+In your evolution source directory do ./autogen.sh --prefix=<evo-prefix>
--with-pisock=<pilot-link-prefix> --enable-pilot-conduits=yes
make
make install
-If you want support SSL (and someday S/MIME), you will also need libnspr4 and
+SSL SUPPORT
+-----------
+
+If you want SSL support (and someday S/MIME), you will also need libnspr4 and
libnss3 which can be found at http://www.mozilla.org.
Once you have libnspr4 and libnss3 (and their respective includes) installed,
-in your evolution source dir do:
+in your evolution source directory do:
./autogen.sh --prefix=<evo-prefix> --with-nspr-includes=<nspr-includes-prefix>
--with-nspr-libs=<nspr-libs-prefix> --with-nss-includes=<nss-includes-prefix>
--with-nss-libs=<nss-libs-prefix>