On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:00:18PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:17:03PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 06:24:08PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > I'm trying to build mutt 1.5.16 on a BSD system (it's not mine, it's > > > my hosting provider, Gradwell.Net). Do you have root access to this box at all? If not, it doesn't make sense to use ports because you have to install some dependencies to /usr/local ... > > If that doesn't work, you'll either need to check > > the BSD ports, or find replacements for these functions somewhere, and > > hack the build system or some Mutt code (maybe util.c) to include them. > > > I did go and look at the download links to BSD ports but, to be quite > honest, they made little sense to me. I.e. I got to:- > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mutt&stype=name > > ... but then didn't really know what to do. There's a download link > to a .tgz file but not being a FreeBSD person I haven't a clue what to > do with that file and I don't even know whether it will install > non-root. You downloaded a binary package. The current production release of FreeBSD is 6.2. All packages are precompiled for 6.2 so you will not be able to use them on your machine. 4.8 has so support since years now. There's a non-official legacy support for 4.x called 'end-of-life' but you (or your provider) will have to upgrade to this version. In this case you can move to 6.2 instead :) > > > Can anyone suggest how to get around this problem, don't say upgrade > > > the OS as I said it's not mine so that's not a possibility. > > > > You might be able to get your hosting provider to do it. It's > > Likely to fix the problem, and likely to fix other problems... > > > I'll ask on the Gradwell newsgroups, I know quite a few Gradwell > customers use mutt and it may be that someone has built/installed > 1.5.x already. Check out the current FreeBSD patches for mutt-devel, too. You can find all of them at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/mutt-devel/files/ Feel free to contact me if you have more FreeBSD specific questions. -- Oliver PETER, email: hoschi@xxxxxxxxxx, ICQ# 113969174 "Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave."
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