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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
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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>
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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

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Arjan de Vet                             <Arjan.de.Vet@adv.win.tue.nl> (home)
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands <devet@win.tue.nl> (work)