Hello Gerrit!

Oct 15 08:54 03, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>>>> If you just can try compile it and send me a error log..

 GK>>> Sounds doable. :)
 GK>>> Did you already ask Andrew Clarke for help? He's also using FreeBSD.

 BS>> I've not heard from in, in several months.

 GK> Hm, that's quite a pity.

Yes.

 GK>>> Ok, where can I get the source?

 BS>> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous{at}cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/maximus co 
 BS>> maximus

 GK> Hm... is that already everything?

Eh yes there should be the whole maximus package.

 GK> bash-2.05b$ ./configure 
 GK> Configuring Maximus..

 GK> Found gcc as /usr/bin/gcc
 GK> Found g++ as /usr/bin/g++
 GK> Found gmake as /usr/local/bin/gmake
 GK> Found ar as /usr/bin/ar
 GK> Found ranlib as /usr/bin/ranlib
 GK> Found bison as /usr/local/bin/bison
 GK> Found sed as /usr/bin/sed
 GK> Found rm as /bin/rm
 GK> Found mv as /bin/mv
 GK> Found install as /usr/bin/install
 GK> Found uname as /usr/bin/uname
 GK> Found makedepend as /usr/X11R6/bin/makedepend

 GK> [...]

 GK> Testing your build environment..

 GK> Testing your version of GNU make: /usr/local/bin/gmake
 GK>  - Looks fine to me! (version 3.80)
 GK> Testing your C compiler..
 GK>  - Looks fine to me!
 GK> Determining platform endianness..
 GK>  - Chose LITTLE_ENDIAN
 GK> Testing size of stamp_combo..
 GK>  - Looks fine to me!
 GK> Warning: could not find install_tree. Did you forget to unpack 
 GK> max-3.03-etc.tar.gz?

So far so good.. max-3.03-etc.tar.gz can be found on the sourceforge page,
it's on the filelist.

 GK> Do I have to download this file somewhere or should it already be 
 GK> here? Unfortunately sf webcvs seems to be down, again... ok, I could 
 GK> download that file anyway, now configure seems to work. Let's see...

It's not nessersary, it's sample configuration files.

 GK> bash-2.05b$ gmake build

 GK> [...lots of warnings and other garbage...]

 GK> s_abbs.c:20: warning: ignoring pragma: )
 GK> s_abbs.c:22: warning: ignoring pragma: )
 GK> In file included from 
 GK> /home/gerrit/source/fido/maximus/maximus/slib/ffind.h:28,
 GK>                  from 
 GK> /home/gerrit/source/fido/maximus/maximus/slib/dr.h:25,
 GK>                  from s_abbs.c:33:
 GK> /home/gerrit/source/fido/maximus/maximus/slib/typedefs.h:99: 
 GK> redefinition of `ushort'
 GK> /usr/include/sys/types.h:56: `ushort' previously declared here
 GK> s_abbs.c:21: warning: `rcs_id' defined but not used
 GK> gmake[1]: *** [s_abbs.o] Error 1

 GK> Seems to be so some things left to fix (at least for FreeBSD). :)
 GK> Do you want the full error log sent to your FTN aka or to some email 
 GK> address?

Doesn't matter, just send it by netmail.

Regards,
Bo

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