Re: Building balsa on Tru64 UNIX (without pspell)

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:40:48PM +0100, jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am working on a port of Balsa 1.2.3 to Compaq Tru64 UNIX 5.1 using the
> Compaq cc / cxx compilers 6.4. My experiences up to now:
> 
ouch.

> Building fancy GNUware like all that GNOME stuff on a 64 bit / non ia32,
> non Linux, non gcc, non glibc, non ... system is masochism. ;-)
> 
on the last box compaq sent me they included cedes with gnome, gcc, gdb
and all that stuff, even rpm.  from the wording on the cedes i'd say you 
should be able to download them from digital.com but i'm not sure.

> Whe website mentions that pspell and libesmtp are absolutely required.
> After spendig houres to get libesmtp compiled, I read in the FAQ that it

make -k and mail brian the output :)


> One possible solution would be to make pspell optional for balsa. I
> would prefere that, as i don't like spell checker. (I think you already
> noticed that. ;-)  )
> 
i tried to do that once, but it got nowhere for lack of time. 
maybe it's time i do it for real :)

> Please help me to solve that pspell problem and to get rid of mutt.
> (mutt is fine, but 1006601344 seconds since the UNIX Epoch is a time
> where I prefere to use a MUA with a powerful GUI interface instead of a
> text mode interface that was modern 25 years ago.)
> 
> I started to compile balsa with a faked pspell interface / commented out
> the spell check related funktions. This gives errors about unresolved
> references while linking the final executable. That was expected and the
> executable will not run of course. But I was able to compile balsa and
> work on all the other problems I encountered: libmutt exports some
> symbols like "CONTEXT" that are already declared by the libc. So I had

errrrr. *blink* mutt *does* compile on du, and CONTEXT comes from mutt.
i'm kind of aloss

> to rename them to "MAIL_CONTEXT"... Some compiler issues (gcc may accept
> to do a typedef on a struct that is declared later. cxx insist on an
> already declared struct when it is used in a typedef.) Some other things
> and a bunch of warnings I did not investigate yet. 
> 
> Be prepared to receive a buch of patches.

ah. coments in unified diff format. my favorite :)

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