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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko 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 References: <586@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <CAL695.2xL@cyb.cojones.com> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 34 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 -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands