diff -NaurwB fetchmail-6.3.8.orig/configure.ac fetchmail-6.3.8/configure.ac
--- fetchmail-6.3.8.orig/configure.ac	2007-04-06 20:10:58.000000000 +0200
+++ fetchmail-6.3.8/configure.ac	2008-07-10 18:40:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -513,15 +513,6 @@
         then
            ac_krblibs="-lasn1 -lroken -lcom_err"
            AC_MSG_RESULT([Heimdal found])
-          dnl Attempt to detect if we need to -ldb2 to link Heimdal
-          dnl we assume we do if it is available
-           AC_CHECK_LIB(db2, db_open, ac_krblibs="$ac_krblibs -ldb2", [],
-                ${LDEFLAGS})
-           AC_CHECK_LIB(des, des_string_to_key, libk5crypto=-ldes,
-              AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, MD5_Init, [],
-                AC_MSG_ERROR([DES libraries not found. Try adding --with-ssl to enable OpenSSL support]),
-                ${LDEFLAGS} ${ac_krblibs}),
-           ${LDEFLAGS} ${ac_krblibs})
            AC_DEFINE(HEIMDAL)
         else
           AC_MSG_RESULT([found])