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From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: compiling smail on 386bsd..
Message-ID: <wilko.743710453@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 26 Jul 93 18:14:13 GMT
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loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) writes:

>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

>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.

	I feel relieved ;-)

And indeed, just like some other (email) messages have indicated:
the /bin/sh (or /bin/ash actually) seems to screw up real bad.
Bash solved al this and made the compile just fine. I didn't
have any problems with vfprintf (?)

Wilko

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