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#! rnews 1178 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: compiling gnu finger Date: 10 Sep 1995 21:29:00 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <42vlas$lei@spruce.cic.net> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950910052700.15160r-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.950910052700.15160r-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, > Has anyone out there successfully compiled gnu finger 1.37 under >FreeBSD? If anyone did, can you tell me what did you need to do to get >it to compile? Any help would be greatly appreciated. GNU finger hasn't been updated in many moons. If I were you, I'd go get the finger package from the UC Berkeley ICSI. ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:pub/ai/stolcke/software I haven't built it on FreeBSD, but I have built it on many other platforms, and found it substantially more portable than GNU finger. -- Paul Southworth pauls@cic.net