Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous.

[Anthony J. Bentley]

Andy Bradford writes:
> Thus said David Levine on Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:59:52 -0500:
>
> > Though looking at it now, we  should probably move FreeBSD 9, OpenBSD,
> > and   Solaris  11   to  the   was-known-in-the-distant-past-to-compile
> > category.
>
> I've heard a rumor that BSD is dead, or at least in it's last throes...
>
> Actually, I  currently use nmh-1.6 (from  ports) on OpenBSD 6.1.  I also
> just  downloaded  nmh-1.7  and  it compiled  cleanly.  I  haven't  tried
> using  it though.  Does  that mean  that  it should  be  moved into  the
> ``was-known-in-the-distant-past-to-compile'' category?

The OpenBSD package will be updated to 1.7 in a day or so.
I've been using rc3 for months and 1.7 since this week.

> 1 test failed:
>
>
> *** /tmp/nmh-1.7/test/testdir/54474.draft       Thu Nov 30 00:04:52 2017
> --- /tmp/nmh-1.7/test/testdir/54474.expected    Thu Nov 30 00:04:52 2017
> ***************
> *** 18,24 ****
>   /9g=
>   
>   ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0
> ! Content-Type: application/x-not-regular-file; name="nulls"
>   Content-Description: nulls
>   Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="nulls"
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> --- 18,24 ----

OpenBSD's file(1) implementation apparently sees this file differently.

$ file -i nmh-1.7/test/mhbuild/nulls
nmh-1.7/test/mhbuild/nulls: application/x-not-regular-file

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Anthony J. Bentley