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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pop mail server
Date: 6 Jun 1997 14:47:52 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5n50n9$15ru$1@magma.mines.edu>,
	mmiller@mines.edu (Mark Miller) writes:
> Recently I installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 and would like to use it as a small  
> email server.  I downloaded the Qpopper2.3 source from Qualcomm and ran 
> 'make 44bsd'.  Everything seemed to compile, but when it got to the link 
> stage it gave the following error:
> pop_pass.o: Undefined symbol '_crypt' referenced from text segment
> *** Error code 1
> 
> I installed the DES package from sysinstall, but this did not cure the 
> problem.  The links on the libcrypt* files point to the DES library files.
> 
> Does anyone know what is going on here?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Mark Miller

You're missing "-lcrypt" on the link line.  You should really be
using the ports collection.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !