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Re: Notes on rebuilding Hebrew pine in Linux



On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Omer Zak wrote:

Why 3.96 and not 4.05_heb2.07 ?

--Ariel

> 1. Software configuration:
> Standard RedHat Linux 5.1, except that the kernel was upgraded to version
> 2.0.36 (the relevant packages are: kernel-2.0.36-1 and
> kernel-headers-2.0.36-1).
> The gcc package version used was: gcc-2.7.2.3-11
> 
> 2. Source of thepineh package:
> ftp://horizon.cc.huji.ac.il/pub/pine3.96_heb2.07.tar.gz
> 
> 3. Procedure for building:
> 1. tar zxvf pine3.96_heb2.07.tar.gz
> 2. cd pine3.96_heb2.07
> 3. ./build lnx
> 
> 4. Patches in order to get it to compile
> I found that in order to compile, the following three changes have to be
> made:
> 
> * pine3.96_heb2.07/imap/ANSI/c-client/log_std.c
>     crypt() is not declared in the header files which I have, so it
>     was replaced by a string constant.
> 
>     This is apparently due to American export laws.
> 
> * pine3.96_heb2.07/pico/osdep.c
>     conditionally-compiled declaration of extern char *sys_errlist[]
>     was commented out altogether.
> * pine3.96_heb2.07/pine/os.c
>     declaration of sys_errar *sys_errlist[] was commented out 
>     altogether.
> 
>     This is apparently because the declaration of sys_errlist[] in
>     /usr/include/stdio.h was changed from the past to make it const.
> 
> 5. After compilation
> After compilation, pineh appears to work correctly with standard xterm,
> when it is started with -fn 10x20h (one of the X fonts which supports
> Hebrew).
>                                            --- Omer
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