Added some debug messaging.

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			    FreeBSD notes

The build tree  for Dolda Connect is not very  portable at the moment,
but work is under way to fix that. For now, at least the daemon should
be possible to  build on FreeBSD (though the ability to  run it is not
guaranteed ;),  but even that requires some  special care. Eventually,
all this should be fixed.

			  For SVN/GIT users

First of  all, if you have  gotten this copy of  Dolda Connect through
Subversion  or git,  you would  normally need  to run  the `bootstrap'
script to create the `configure'  script. However, it does not work in
FreeBSD, since the  FreeBSD configuration of aclocal is  a bit broken.
Instead, you will need to run the following commands manually:

$ autopoint
$ aclocal -I m4 -I /usr/local/share/aclocal
$ autoheader
$ libtoolize --copy --force
$ automake --add-missing --copy
$ autoconf

Note, also, that FreeBSD  does not install version-number free aliases
of these commands, so the appropriate versions must be added, which is
easily done with the help of tab completion.

Of course,  none of the  above is required  for the tarball  copies of
Dolda Connect, which already have these steps completed for you.

			     For everyone

When compiling  Dolda Connect, there are also  some caveats. FreeBSD's
libc does  not have an  implementation of the iconv(3)  functions, and
Dolda Connect's  `configure' script cannot  detect that automatically,
yet.

Also,  Dolda Connect  uses  a lot  of  libraries that  are located  in
/usr/local/lib, but by  default, the FreeBSD linker does  not look for
libraries there.

Therefore, the  linker must be passed  the arguments `-L/usr/local/lib
-liconv' to  compile Dolda Connect. The  easiest way to do  that is to
pass it via the `configure' script, like this:

$ ./configure other-args... "LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -liconv"

You may or may not also want  to pass `CFLAGS=-g' as well, to ease any
debugging.

			 Currently known bugs

This  is a  list of  currently  known bugs  that are  specific to  the
FreeBSD build of Dolda Connect.

 * Many components are not able to build with FreeBSD's `make'
   command. Until that is fixed, please use gmake instead.
 * doldacond only listens to IPv6, since the ::ffff:0:0/96 stack
   escape prefix is enabled on Linux by default. On FreeBSD it is
   not enabled by default, however, so doldacond only accepts IPv6
   connections unless either compiled without IPv6 support, or the
   sysctl net.inet6.ip6.v6only is set to 0.
 * Some other components do not build at all, since they use
   Linux-specific things of various kinds.
 * PAM authentication in doldacond does not work, for as of yet
   unknown reasons.