Subject: compiling pine

From: "Rich A. Hurley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 15:39:39 -0800 (PST)

I am attempting to compile pine on my sco unix box without success.  It 
is looking for c-client to be a directory with some *.h header files in 
it.  the copy of pine I have has a c-client file of zero bytes, but is 
not a directory.  Help with this as well as any help with the syntax of 
compiling it would be helpful.  I am also trying to compile in on a unix 
system V box as well!

thanks....

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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 17:29:19 GMT

Rich A. Hurley ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I am attempting to compile pine on my sco unix box without success.  It 
: is looking for c-client to be a directory with some *.h header files in 
: it.  the copy of pine I have has a c-client file of zero bytes, but is 
: not a directory.  Help with this as well as any help with the syntax of 
: compiling it would be helpful.  I am also trying to compile in on a unix 
: system V box as well!

Pine should compile without modification on SCO.  At least it does on my
3.2.4.2 system.  What the most common problem has been is that you need to
have the developer's version of TCP/IP.  Since SCO sells TCP/IP separately
from the O/S, they also have to sell a non-TCP-aware compiler system. 
Your reseller should warn you that a compiler system on a TCP/IP system
isn't the complete picture.  To be able to compile interesting things, you
_must_ also get the developer's version of the TCP/IP module.  So if you
have runtime TCP/IP and the compiler system, you still can't compile
TCP/IP programs, of which Pine is one.  The main symptom is "missing 
header file netdb.h", and one other I can't remember right now.

Pick up binaries for it at ftp.celestial.com, unless you really need to 
compile it yourself.  But definitely see about your TCP/IP version, since 
if you really want to be able to build sources from the Internet, you'll 
need it.  Bad.

Gunther Anderson
Unix System Administrator
Education Development Center