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From: joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Joern Clausen)
Subject: Re: problems compiling elm
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Eka Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:

: I just compiled elm-2.4p25. It compiled well, but when I try to read my
: mail, elm says that my mailfile is still receiving messages... then it waits
: 7 seconds and then elm quits.
: There is also lock file in /var/mail (/var/mail/eka.lock).

: I used to use elm-2.4p23... this older version works well.. but I didn't
: compile it myself.

: I think that I did something wrong when I have to answer some questions to
: the configuration-script before compiling elm-2.4p25.

What locking methods have you compiled into elm? I use only dot-locking,
neither flock nor fcntl, and elm works fine fore me.

--
Joern Clausen                        "What do you think will be the biggest
joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE        problem in computing in the 90s?"
Universitaet Bielefeld               "There are only 17,000 three-letter-
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