Subject: Pine 4.58 Cygwin issue

From: Victor Stepanov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:24:43 +0400

Hello,

I'm experienced strange behavior of Pine 4.58 under Cygwin environment.
Some of fields on index screen is missing... Screenshot attached. Also
message display is not working correct. Any ideas?

Thank you

V.

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From: Nicolas Christin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:20:32 -0700

On Thu Sep 18, 2003, Victor Stepanov <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I'm experienced strange behavior of Pine 4.58 under Cygwin
> environment. Some of fields on index screen is missing... Screenshot
> attached. Also message display is not working correct. Any ideas?

I reported the same problem earlier on this list (my post was
unfortunately mislabelled Re: User-Agent for 4.58 or somesuch). The
issue is not restricted to 4.58. All versions of pine I've tried to
recompile in Cygwin 1.5.x exhibit the same behavior. 

I believe it has to do with some types being redefined in Cygwin 1.5.x
(as a wild guess, you previous binary of pine was probably compiled
against 1.3.x).

-- 
Nicolas

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:20:27 -0700 (PDT)

[ this message was Bcc'd to the pine-info list ]

*** Victor Stepanov ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) I'm experienced strange behavior of Pine 4.58 under Cygwin environment.
:) Some of fields on index screen is missing... Screenshot attached. Also
:) message display is not working correct. Any ideas?

[ screenshot available at http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/cygwin/PCygPine4.58.gif]

Dear Victor,

  The place to report bugs in cygwing application is the cygwin mailing
list (cygwin at cygwin punto com). Version 4.58 is *not* a supported
version in cygwin. As you must have noticed, the last release of Pine for
cygwin was 4.55 (under the 1.3.X world), not 4.56, not 4.58. That is
because during that version of Pine, cygwin was in version 1.3.X. Having
said that. None of the supported versions, either, (built under Cygwin
1.5.X) work under Cygwin 1.5.X.

  Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html, so that you learn how to
report a problem with a cygwin application.

I am trying to look into this issue, and I am afraid that I will have to
build Pine in a 32bit world rather than upgrade it to the 64bit world,
which seems like a lot of work to make (e.g the size of off_t is bigger
than the size of unsigned long in the 64bit world. To adapt this to the
c-client library is non trivial for me).

I do not have a connection to the internet at home still, probably until
next week, so I can't make all tests that I want to make yet.

I still have to research this issue further. When I have understood all
the problems involved I will try to come up with a solution. At this
moment I don't understand much of the problem. Given how much stuff is
going on in my life today, don't hold your breath for it.

Please keep this discussion within the cygwin mailing list. I have Bcc'd
my reply to the pine-info list for courtesy. If you are not subscribed to
the cygwin mailing list, please us the gateway through gmane
(www.gmane.org). You can Cc: me if you want to.

If anyone wants to help to build Pine 4.58 for Cygwin 1.5.X, I would
appreciate that help.

Thanks!

Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Victor Stepanov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:19:31 +0400

> (as a wild guess, you previous binary of pine was probably compiled

That is true. I tried to build 4.58 under 1.3.x and everything fine. Since
some of feature of 4.58 important for me, I'm running 4.58 builded on 1.3.x
as temporary solution.

V.

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:15:50 -0700 (PDT)

:) On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Nicolas Christin wrote:
:)
:) > I believe it has to do with some types being redefined in Cygwin
:) > 1.5.x (as a wild guess, you previous binary of pine was probably
:) > compiled against 1.3.x).
:)
:) That is true. I tried to build 4.58 under 1.3.x and everything fine.
:) Since some of feature of 4.58 important for me, I'm running 4.58
:) builded on 1.3.x as temporary solution.

Victor,

  Good news. I believe some white smoke came out from my work in Pine
yesterday night. I will probably be relasing a test version next week.

Eduardo

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From: Rick Lewis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:59:31 -0700 (MST)

I'm using the latest (or one of the latest) of Eduardo's patched versions
of pine on a FreeBSD shell account.
The mail-drop I had kept checking for new mail in 4.56, but it doesn't in
4.58.
The default interval is set for 60 seconds, and the default
Pine mail-check-interval is being used, which is, I believe, 150 seconds.
In 4.56, the mail-drop folder worked great. It would either stay open or
reopen periodically, which is why I set it up as a mail-drop folder to
begin with.
Now, it doesn't seem to reopen unless I re-enter Pine altogether.
Has anything changed between 4.56 and 4.58? (If so, I missed it in the
release notes.)
What I want to do, which seemed to work fine in 4.56, is keep a pop3 email
folder open on another server, with mail being moved to a folder on my
shell.
Now, I seem to only get mail when I initially open the folder, but not
otherwise unless I start Pine again.
Using return or other folder access methods doesn't seem to change this.
--Rick

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