Re: [nmh-workers] Handling empty components

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Bob,

> For example, build_nmh is failing during the "configuring" step
> because one of the checks, which builds a small program that includes
> "gdbm-ndbm.h", fails because that include file is no longer provided
> with the libgdbm-dev package (only "gdbm.h" is).

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=gdbm-ndbm.h&mode=exactfilename&suite=bionic&arch=any
says gdbm-ndbm.h is from package libgdbm-compat-dev on 18.04.
nmh's `MACHINES' may need updating.

Have you considered re-building the existing Ubuntu package that you're
using, after applying Ken's one-line patch?  apt-get(1) has a `source'
subcommand, and there's debuild(1) to do the building.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpdatingADeb

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.