Re: [Nmh-workers] Building nmh 1.6 for Ubuntu 12.04

[David Levine]

Bill wrote:

> That's basically what I used to build 1.5 on my Kepler machine which is
> now running CentOS with no nmh in their repository, not even 1.3 :-(. I
> got permission from IT to compile it, fortunately. My full command was
> this, since I didn't have permission in the spool directory (for
> locking) nor /usr/local:
> 
>     ./configure --enable-lockdir=$HOME/var/mail --with-cyrus-sasl --with-tls 
> --prefix $HOME/lib/nmh

Let me expand on what Ken said:

On CentOS, as of nmh 1.6, the default is fcntl locking of the
spool file.  This can be overridden using --with-locking at
configure time or in mts.conf at run time, see mh-tailor(5)
or the documentation in mts.conf itself.

--enable-lockdir only applies with dot locking.  So as of 1.6,
it doesn't have any effect by itself in your configure command.

A Fedora nmh RPM might work on CentOS, though you'd need
permission to install it in the default location.  As of nmh
1.6, the RPM is configured with --with-cyrus-sasl --with-tls.

mhparam needs to be fixed so that "mhparam spoollocking" obeys
mts.conf.  "mhparam datalocking" does the right thing.

David