From: Florian Forster <octo@leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:40:01 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: README: Document the “--with-libiptc=shipped” option.
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README: Document the “--with-libiptc=shipped” option.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 96d601ac..74127658 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -453,11 +453,16 @@ Prerequisites
     If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
     <http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
 
-  * libiptc (optional, if not found a version shipped with this distribution
-    can be used if the Linux kernel headers are available)
+  * libiptc (optional)
     For querying iptables counters.
     <http://netfilter.org/>
 
+    If not found on the system, a version shipped with this distribution can
+    be used. It requires some Linux headers in /usr/include/linux. You can
+    force the build system to use the shipped version by specifying
+      --with-libiptc=shipped
+    when running the configure script.
+
   * libjvm (optional)
     Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
     used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with