Re: [bug-mailutils] Compiling mailutils 2.0 on solaris

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Maarten,

> I'm getting this error when compiling mailutils 2.0 on Solaris 10:
> asprintf                            ../mailbox/.libs/libmailutils.so
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/aclck
> 
> Is this a known error, and what is the fix?

Well, strictly speaking it is not an error, it is a GNU dependency:
the version 2.0 extensively used asprintf, which is a GNU extension
and is therefore absent in many non-GNU libc implementations. Since
then, we have abandoned this practice and now latest Mailutils snapshots
are known to succesfully build on several non-GNU architectures. I'd
suggest to try the latest snapshot, which is available at anonymous[1]:

  ftp://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/alpha/mailutils/mailutils-latest.tar.bz2

Give it a try, and let me know if you experience any problems.

Regards,
Sergey

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