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docs/INSTALL: update configure details

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Note the default libpsl requirement in INSTALL and polish the TLS
library wording.

Closes #20301
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@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ unpacked the source archive):
(Adjust the configure line accordingly to use the TLS library you want.)
By default curl builds with libpsl (Public Suffix List) support. If libpsl is
not available on your system, install it or disable it with `--without-libpsl`.
You probably need to be root when doing the last command.
Get a full listing of all available configure options by invoking it like:
@ -65,10 +68,9 @@ your own home directory:
make
make install
The configure script always tries to find a working SSL library unless
explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default search
path for your compiler/linker, you do not need to do anything special. If you
have OpenSSL installed in `/usr/local/ssl`, you can run configure like:
The configure script requires you to select a TLS backend explicitly unless
you disable TLS with `--without-ssl`. If you have OpenSSL installed in the
default search path for your compiler/linker, you can run configure like:
./configure --with-openssl
@ -91,7 +93,7 @@ header files somewhere else, you have to set the `LDFLAGS` and `CPPFLAGS`
environment variables prior to running configure. Something like this should
work:
CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" ./configure
CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" ./configure --with-openssl
If you have shared SSL libs installed in a directory where your runtime
linker does not find them (which usually causes configure failures), you can