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From: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN1.4 on FreeBSD ...
Date: 17 May 1996 07:23:34 +0100
Organization: Ruff'n Ready
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John F Clark (clark@knox.net) wrote:
: make/make install in the main news directory it complains about a syntax
: error in {newsdir}/config/subst (which came w/the tar file!) and
: conflicting types in the include files for `lseek' and `sys_errlist'.
Ok, yes that error happens when you try to do this on FreeBSD. Step 1.
Print off the install ms script. Just the first one. Remeber to put it
through nroff - appologies if this is teaching grandmothers etc.
Read the first sections, there is a set of different methods on how to
build subst depending on your system. The last variant works on BSD so
long as you ignore the errors. The ones you get are nasties and so I should
use another method of building it.
Another tip is to go through the separate stages rather than go for broke,
again this is well documented in the install pages. This way you get
to see the bugs as they happen.
Cheers
Robin
PS, wait till you get to the config files, then the fun really starts.
despite all of this INN 1.4 is great, its what I use, together with slurp
and tin, and it is a really wizzo system. If you have any snags get back
and I'll try to help. No guarrantees though :-))