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From: loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: compiling smail on 386bsd..
Message-ID: <CAL695.2xL@cyb.cojones.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 21:55:38 GMT
References: <586@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com
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In article <586@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes:
>Has anybody succeeded in compiling smail 3.1.28 (from ref) on 386bsd?
>It seems the make depend always screws up on my system. It leaves
>#define <nothing else> and '=yes' in the defs.* files. This happens
>only after the os define stuff (like X_UNIX_X etc). 
>
>Any clues?

Well, I took to using bash as sh when the time came to compile cnews, so that
might have something to do with it.  I too had problems with various defines
of the form X_..._X all over but they didn't seem to hurt anything.  I had to
make up a new os configuration file (I can send it if need be),  and compile.
I had problems with the vfprintf supplied with smail (it caused a core dump)
so I commented it out of the source.  Other than that it seemed to work just
fine.

>(And I was only hoping that I could get smail to work for me better 
>than sendmail itself sofar has. It seems hacking sendmail.cf is not
>my line of business ;-)
>
Nor mine.  Couldn't make head or tail of it.

>Wilko
>
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Bruce