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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.745176286@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Aug 93 17:24:46 GMT
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devet@wsinis08.info.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet) writes:

>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 

>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

Let's confuse things even more ;-) :

386bsd uses ash (I think). My problems with compiling smail 
(the X_blabla_X problem) went away when I switched to bash.

Wilko

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