Re: [Sks-devel] Re: compile errors

[Chris Kuethe]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, George Hill wrote:

> > a) upgrade to a recent snapshot
> does this sound like an OS version problem to you?

1) 3.3 is approaching end-of-life
2) OBSD switched to ELF executables
3) Numerix (as you said) is making some assumptions about binary format

> > b) use the ports tree
> what would ports be doing differently than a manual compile?

compiler flags. the fact that i'll install and uninstall properly. you
could use the prebuilt packages too.

> im using 0-day ocaml and db4, as the sks build and installation howto suggests

OK, well, if you get a spare box to mess with, installing ocaml and db4 as
packages will be really easy. you will need to make a couple of little
source tweaks to use db4.2 from ports, but nothing serious (a few things
changed since db4.1).

CK

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