Re: troubles compiling mailutils

[Jeff Bailey]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:53:59PM -0700, Walter J. Mack wrote:

> I have picked up your e-mail address in the AUTHORS list of the
> mailutils package. If I should address my question to someone else,
> then please reply and let me know that person's name and e-mail
> address.

Please always email address@hidden

> I am trying to configure mailutils, and have downloaded the gz file
> from the CVS snapshot directory, but am not able to run ./configure
> successfully.

Did you run `autogen.sh' to build your configure script?  If not,
everything else will be quite broken.

> The system is a Redhat 6.2 installation on an HP Kayak Pentium II. I
> only installed the OS yesterday on a clean disk. The only thing
> added since then are the binutils (which configured and installed
> without a hitch).

Redhat 6.2 is about 2 years old, so is not a particularily good base
to work from.  I strongly recommend Debian, since it's quite easy to
keep up to date.

And also you can get mailutils by just typing `apt-get install
mailutils' =)

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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