Subject: Building Pine On Solaris - Compile Time Options Don't Work

From: [email-masked] (Michael J. Weiss)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:53:26 GMT

I build pine semi-succesfully on Solaris (2.3 I believe).

I specifically rebuilt it in order to modify certain compile-time
options such as allowing users to change the "From:" header, etc.  and
thus create a custom version of Pine, slightly different than the one
available on my system.

First of all, I was not able to find a pre-done option to build for
Solaris.  I followed the instructions to build the program on an
operating system which wasn't listed, and it ran when I finished.
Unfortunately, it functioned exactly as the version of Pine on my
system, seemingly ignoring all of the options which I had compiled it
with.

I was very careful that I was executing my local copy of pine rather
than the one available system-wide.  I am curious why such a seemingly
popular operating system isn't one of the default supported ones.
Perhaps the process which I went through to compile under this OS has
something to do with the compile-time options I set in the header not
taking effect?

Can anyone shed some light on this?  Thanks so much for your help.

Michael Weiss