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-rw-r--r--lib/README.ares13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/README.ares b/lib/README.ares
index 6e295ade8..6eacfab3e 100644
--- a/lib/README.ares
+++ b/lib/README.ares
@@ -31,12 +31,21 @@ Build ares
3. ./configure
4. make
-Build libcurl to use ares
-=========================
+Build libcurl to use ares in the curl source tree
+=================================================
1. name the ares source directory 'ares' in the curl source directory
2. ./configure --enable-ares
3. make
+Build libcurl to use an installed ares
+======================================
+
+1. ./configure --enable-ares=/path/to/ares/install
+2. make
+
+Ares and ipv6
+=============
+
If the configure script enables IPv6 support you need to explicitly disable
that (--disable-ipv6) since ares isn't IPv6 compatible (yet).