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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD & GNU fingerd-1.37 Date: 22 Dec 1995 00:19:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4bctit$gdp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4asduh$d1@easy2.mediacity.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 yoshi@easy1.mediacity.com (Yoshi) writes: > Anyone gotten this beast to compile w/ FreeBSD? Even after hours > of code modification, it still won't compile. (grumble grumble) > Normally all GNU code combiles out-of-the-box. Strange. GNU finger is very old. Version 1.37 seems to be from 1992 or so. I didn't have major problems to compile it (well, minor tweaks, i had to hand-install it after all, but nothing that proved to be a total show-stopper). What i have yet to figure out is how to populate the ``current command'' field in the finger output. It's basically the same jobs as w(1) is doing, bug GNU finger doesn't seem to know that much about newer BSDs. (Well, i just remember that the PROCFS stuff inside GNU finger is entirely useless for FreeBSD. configure auto-detects it however, and you have to tweak the Makefile to disable it.) > Runnin' FreeBSD-2.2, FYI. Curious: where did'ya get it? :-) (Now that 2.1 has been released only some weeks ago...) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)