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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pipex!sunic!ebc.ee!kask!ekasak Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Has anyone tried to build SMAIL-3.1.28 on NetBSD? Message-ID: <1993Jun25.202631.153@ebc.ee> From: ekasak@ebc.ee (Enn Kasak) Date: 25 Jun 93 20:26:29 +0300 References: <1993Jun17.143045.18225@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: kask.ebc.ee X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]Lines: 23 Lines: 23 John D. Boggs (jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote: : I'm sick of trying to read the cryptic "instructions" on how to : configure sendmail, so I'm trying to switch to smail, which I've : had good luck using in the past. BUT there seems to be a shell : incompatibility. In the middle of defs.sh there is a line which : reads merely "=yes". This kills make every time. Well, I did it, but believe, it wasn't easy. I had to make the defs.* files on an other machine (running SCO Unix) and then modified some programs nthat wanted to make new defs.* files. Then I had to install these files everywhere by hand and finally made some fixes to the code (I think config had to do them because on SCO it compiled fine...). But now it works and if you want, I can email you the binariy. : At any rate, has anyone gotten it to work? I'm no shell wizard. : -- : John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us : or ...!access1!erato!jdb Tanel.