Re: Compiling 0.9.3

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

I coulnd't have said it better myself...

needless to say I agree...


On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:46:47 Matthew Guenther wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:56:49PM +0200, Pablo Lopez Cienfuegos wrote:
> > 	Hi all:
> > 
> > > I think we should leave things as is. People who havethe buggy compiler
> > > can use --disable-more-warnings
> > 
> > 	I don't think so. Al least, you should have to put some kind of
advise
> > in INSTALL or README. If people can get Balsa to compile, they'll
> > probably try another mail client; not all of them are going to write to
> > the list for help.
> 
> There already is an advisory in the INSTALL file about using older versions
> of gcc/egcs.  People who don't know how to compile and fix problems like
> this, and don't read the INSTALL file should be installing from packages
> any-ways.  This is fundamentally a system mis-configuration problem, and
it's
> not our job to administer every machine that wants to compile balsa.
> 
> MBG
> 
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