From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: movemail on Debian
Date: 30 Apr 2003 18:59:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqy91rx3ww.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E19AkNT-0008EE-00@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> * configure.in: When we have -llockfile, define HAVE_LIBMAIL, not
> LIBMAIL.
>
> Can you explain the meaning of defining LIBMAIL,
I think there wasn't any. [I was fairly sure the configurey worked at
one stage, but that was perhaps a couple of years back and it seems
the current version doesn't DTRT despite what the Debian patch says.]
> and the meaning of defining HAVE_LIBMAIL, so I can understand this
> change?
It's normal autoconf for `can link -lmail'.
> Does HAVE_LIBMAIL have any existing meaning, distinct from its effect
> on the conditional you are adding to gnu-linux.h?
I think movemail is written to work with function `maillock' (?) from
a proprietary libmail. Debian has the same function in liblockfile.
Defining HAVE_LIBMAIL (albeit a lie) gets movemail to use maillock --
as I commented in gnu-linux.h -- without touching movemail.c. See
conditionals on HAVE_LIBMAIL &c near the top of movemail.c.
Is that clear?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-30 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <rzqissx2xrl.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
2003-04-30 5:43 ` movemail on Debian Richard Stallman
2003-04-30 17:59 ` Dave Love [this message]
2003-05-02 14:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-03 14:25 ` Dave Love
2003-05-04 13:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-04 18:05 ` Dave Love
2003-05-05 19:10 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-20 16:59 ` Dave Love
2003-05-21 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-25 15:31 ` Dave Love
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