Re: [bug-mailutils] Compiling mailutils 2.0 on solaris

[Maarten Thibaut]

Sergey,

Thanks for the new 06-23 version, I tested it out.

  CC     sendmail.lo
sendmail.c: In function `_url_sendmail_init':
sendmail.c:61: error: `_PATH_SENDMAIL' undeclared (first use in this function)
sendmail.c:61: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
sendmail.c:61: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [sendmail.lo] Error 1

libproto/mailer/sendmail.c doesn't include mail/mail.h where _PATH_SENDMAIL is defined, so I added mail.h to sendmail.c to fix this.

A second error:

  CC     mu_dbgport.lo
mu_dbgport.c: In function 'mu_scm_make_debug_port':
mu_dbgport.c:36: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
mu_dbgport.c:39: error: expected _expression_ before 'scm_t_cell'
make[3]: *** [mu_dbgport.lo] Error 1

I'm not sure how to fix this one, the code is generated using macros. The line is:

port = scm_cell (scm_tc16_mu_debug_port, 0);

--
maarten


On 6/24/09 9:58 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

Hi Maarten,

  

I'm getting this error when compiling mailutils 2.0 on Solaris 10:
asprintf                            ../mailbox/.libs/libmailutils.so
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/aclck

Is this a known error, and what is the fix?
    

Well, strictly speaking it is not an error, it is a GNU dependency:
the version 2.0 extensively used asprintf, which is a GNU extension
and is therefore absent in many non-GNU libc implementations. Since
then, we have abandoned this practice and now latest Mailutils snapshots
are known to succesfully build on several non-GNU architectures. I'd
suggest to try the latest snapshot, which is available at anonymous[1]:

  ftp://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/alpha/mailutils/mailutils-latest.tar.bz2

Give it a try, and let me know if you experience any problems.

Regards,
Sergey

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