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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!crash!fredbox!terminator!loodvrij From: loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: compiling smail on 386bsd.. Message-ID: <CAyF6q.CH@cyb.cojones.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 01:37:23 GMT References: <586@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <CAL695.2xL@cyb.cojones.com> <wilko.743710453@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1993Jul27.130515.13198@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Reply-To: loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com Organization: The museum of ancient wombats Lines: 34 In article <1993Jul27.130515.13198@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins) writes: >In article <wilko.743710453@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: >>loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) writes: > >>>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. > >The X_CC_X that you saw is necessary for make depend to work properly. If >you don't get that to work, then why are you doing it at all? So, the >solution to this problem is to edit "smail-3.1.28/conf/lib/mkdepend.sh" and >define CC to whatever your current compiler is: > >CC="`echo X_CC_X | sed -f defs.sed`" <=== This line was already there >[ -z "$CC" ] && CC=cc <=== This line was already there >CC=gcc <=== I added this line > It was more than just X_CC_X - I had that problem too for a while. I think I initially kludged the way you recommend, but later found a more non-kludgy solution - I can't remember what off-hand. No, even afterwards I had X_..._X type stuff all over - in man page extension numbers most notably. Nothing really critical though, so I just left them. > >Scott >-- > Scott W. Adkins Internet: sadkins@ohiou.edu > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ak323@cleveland.freenet.edu > Ohio University of Athens Bitnet: adkins@ouaccvma.bitnet Bruce