Subject: Re: Compilation of Pine 3.92 for Linux/ELF

From: Kees de Bruin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:13:52 +0100 (MET)

[ Courtesy copy send to author -KdB ]

Apologies if this message (or something alike) appears twice. I had some
problems with Pine (as outlined below).

On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Ashok Aiyar wrote:
 > On 20 Mar 1996 03:57:03 -0800, Kees de Bruin <[email-masked]> wrote:
 > >to compile the source code for Linux running kernel 1.3.59 I had to make
 > >some changes to the sources (see attached file). These had to do with
 > >changing some of the compiler and linker flags, and the definition of the
 > >variable errno in many of the source files. This variable should not be
 > >defined by any program, just include <errno.h> for the definition.
 >
 > This patch fixes the linker errors, but does not resolve the problem
 > I have with sending mail via Pine.  Unless I have an smtp server
 > defined in either ~/.pinerc or in /usr/local/lib/pine.conf, Pine 3.92
 > gives an error and will not send mail on two Linux boxes that I have
 > tried it on.
 >
 > On these same systems Pine 3.91 works perfectly, without an smtp server
 > defined in the Pine configuration files (i.e it is able to use
 > /usr/lib/sendmail) ......

I have also noticed this, but sometimes it all works without any problem,
but it can also hang the sendmail process. I now let Pine talk directly to
the SMTP port on our mail/news server and I don't have any problems (yet).

Regards,

Kees.

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From: Ashok Aiyar <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 07:22:45 -0600 (CST)

>the SMTP port on our mail/news server and I don't have any problems (yet).

Thank you for your reply.  I have decided to do exactly the same.
However I do think that this is a bug in Pine 3.92 relative to 3.91
.... perhaps the developers can look into it at some point of time.

Cheers,
Ashok
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Ashok Aiyar, Ph.D.
Department of Oncology                [email-masked]
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison                    tel: (608) 262-6697