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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!concert!unccsun.uncc.edu!unccsun!jlrobins From: jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu (James Robinson) Subject: XVnews blues (sortof / mabye) Message-ID: <CMGwM2.J50@unccsun.uncc.edu> Sender: usenet@unccsun.uncc.edu Reply-To: jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu Organization: U. N. C. C. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 21:20:25 GMT Lines: 14 Running FreeBSD 1.0.2 (Walnut Creek) / XFree86 w/XView Well, under the advice of the local sysadmin, I dropped my quest for getting xrn to work, and focused my attention to xvnews. I grabbed the source from sunsite, and hoped that a toplevel xmkmf and make would do the trick. Reality struck. I fought with the code for about an hour. gcc didn't like some varargs stuff and some enum array casts. I had to blatantly comment out some things that the linker couldn't find (named compile, step, and gio_expand_path). But, it seems to be working. Has anyone gotten a clean make out of this thing? Posted from a FreeBSD/XFree86 machine using xvnews across a 9600 overly escaped term link to school's nntpserver. Talk about uphill engineering! Oh no! not the call waiting beep!