Subject: AIX screwyness & pine 3.89

From: Paul Southworth <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 11:36:10 -0400 (EDT)

Someone must have gone through this before...

Building pine 3.89 under AIX 3.2 (version is something prior to 3.2.4, 
exactly what it is is rather hard to tell) I experienced the following 
problems:

1. If built with IBM's "cc" it seg faults and core dumps whenever ordered
   to send a message (^X).

2. If built with GCC 2.5.8 it builds fine and will send mail, but gets
   badly confused about expanding paths.  For example, it can't find the
   sent-mail folder (even if it exists) and asks if I want to create
   a new one.  Then it chokes when creating it.  It creates it properly
   the first time, but for ever subsequent message it thinks the sent-mail
   folder doesn't exist, asks if you want to create it, and then
   complains that it exists and bails out of creating it, without
   sending the message.

 With debug level set to 7, it looks like this:

   === send called === 
  new win size -----<24 80>------
  cannonized To "Paul Southworth <[email-masked]>"
  find_folders_in_context: mail/[]
  ====== context_mailbox: (mail/sent-mail)
  Want_to read: y (121)
  IMAP 10:17 5/21 mm_log ERROR: Can't create mailbox mail/sent-mail: 
  mailbox already exists

Corollary of this is that it's also confused about where the folders 
live.  For example, if you look in the Folder List it looks like this:

  INBOX	mail/.	mail/..	mail/saved-messages	mail/sent-mail

instead of:

  INBOX 	saved-messages	sent-mail

Consequently if I try to open the sent-mail directory it says:

  [No such file or directory: mail/mail/sent-mail]

Furthermore if I try to trick it into looking in the right place by 
defining:

  mail-directory=~/mail

It expands that wrong and says:

  Creating subdirectory "/u/pauls//u/pauls/mail" where pine will store
  its mail folders. 
  Error creating subdirectory "/u/pauls//u/pauls/mail" : No such file or 
  directory

Any solutions would be much appreciated.  Attachment to this is
a .pine-debug output from debug level 7.

--
Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 11:19:59 -0700 (PDT)

Paul,

Have you tried the pre-compiled AIX 3.2 binaries from ftp.cac.washington.edu
(mail/unix-bin directory)?  The IBM compiler on _some_ AIX systems has some
obscure problems and we do not have any experience with GCC on AIX... 

--DLM

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