Improve listing specific dependencies for Linux distributions.

CHANGES.186

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Minor changes:
 Functions:
  * Added setsymdiff() [SW]
 
+Documentation:
+ * Improve documentation for required packages in some Linux distributions.
+
 Version 1.8.6 patchlevel 0                                 Dec 25, 2015
 
 NOTE: When updating from an earlier version of PennMUSH, you'll need to run 'make update' and './config.status' in the toplevel PennMUSH directory prior to running 'make'.

INSTALL

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ B. Installation from source
     libpcre3-dev).
 1d. A version of the OpenSSL library; most OSes these days come with
     it out of the box, but some might require a development package as
-    well (openssl-dev or some such name).
+    well (libssl-dev, openssl-dev or some such name).
 2. Run ./configure with any desired options (See ./configure --help or
    read below)
 3. make update

hints/linux.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@
-No special configure options are needed for most linux
-distributions. Exceptions are listed below:
+There are a wide variety of different Linux distributions with a lot
+of variation in what packages are installed by default and what their
+names are. Some common ones have dependencies described below.
+
+* Debian and derived distributions like Ubuntu split libraries up from
+   the other files needed to compile code using them. You'll need to
+   install at a minimum the following packages:
+
+  | build-essentials libpcre3-dev libssl-dev
+
+  Installing libevent-dev is highly recommended as well, but not
+  required.  If you want to use SQL, you'll also need the appropriate
+  -dev package, like libsqlite3-dev.
+
+* For arch, the mandatory packages are:
+   | pcre openssl
+
+   and highly recommended libevent. Some or all of these might already
+   be present as part of a base install.
+
 
 
-* SuSE 9.X reportedly needs CFLAGS=-D__USE_POSIX
 

hints/netbsd.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Penn will compile and run on NetBSD, including OpenSSL
-support, with the caveats below. Tested with NetBSD 6.1.5.
+support, with the caveats below. Tested with NetBSD 7.
 
 Some packages need to be installed via pkgsrc if not already present
 on the server: