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From: martin@bi-link.owl.de (Martin Husemann)
Subject: Re: Has anyone tried to build SMAIL-3.1.28 on NetBSD?
References: <1993Jun17.143045.18225@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Organization: IN - individual network, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, FRG
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 07:18:21 GMT
Message-ID: <C90HML.EnM@bi-link.owl.de>
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jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:

>I'm sick of trying to read the cryptic "instructions" on how to
>configure sendmail, so I'm trying to switch to smail, which I've
>had good luck using in the past.  BUT there seems to be a shell
>incompatibility.  In the middle of defs.sh there is a line which
>reads merely "=yes".  This kills make every time.

This is a bug in ash. I don't know, if it's fixed in current 
versions, I just used bash - and smail 3.1.28 configured and build
fine.


Martin
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