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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09.info.win.tue.nl!wsinis08.info.win.tue.nl!not-for-mail From: devet@wsinis08.info.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: compiling smail on 386bsd.. Date: 12 Aug 1993 10:34:22 +0200 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Lines: 29 Message-ID: <24cvae$grm@wsinis08.info.win.tue.nl> References: <586@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <wilko.743710453@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1993Jul27.130515.13198@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> <CAyF6q.CH@cyb.cojones.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wsinis08.info.win.tue.nl In article <CAyF6q.CH@cyb.cojones.com>, Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler <loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com> wrote: >>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: >> [...] >> >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. I had the same problem on Linux running bash 1.12 as /bin/sh substitute. After defining CASE_NO_NEWLINES=true in conf/os/linux everything worked fine. Maybe this solution works for 386bsd too (I don't know what 386bsd uses for /bin/sh). Arjan -- Arjan de Vet <Arjan.de.Vet@adv.win.tue.nl> (home) Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands <devet@win.tue.nl> (work)