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From: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 20:15:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Elm compilation problems
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Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
References: <C4qqt0.27A@cs.uct.ac.za>
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yes I have compiled it on 386bsd. And it had a problem with filelocking.
the configure script says 386bsd has fcntl filelocking. This is partly
true, because it has a function called fnctl, but this does something
else than is expected in SysV. So check your config.h and disable
fnctl.



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