NNTP/RRN help needed
The Ancient Programmer
abrams at bnlux0.bnl.gov
Wed Jul 26 07:08:48 AEST 1989
I previously posted this "Request for Assistance" in news.software.nntp
and received a couple of replies which said: "It worked fine for me." So
I got new versions of nntp.1.5 and rrn.39 from Berkeley's anonymous ftp
and tried again with the same results! Does anyone have any idea why I am
getting these results while others seem to be having no problem with the
same code?
Trying to install NNTP.1.5 & RRN.39 on a Sun 3 under OS 4.0.1.
Problem #1: In RRN.39, Configure requires that response_codes.h be in the
nntp/common source directory, and in the distribution it is not
there. Getting past that -
Problem #2: In util.c, signal is defined as:
int (*signal())();
while in /usr/include/signal.h signal is defined as:
void (*signal())();
This leads to an error during make of:
|"util.c", line 36: redeclaration of signal
|"util.c", line 64: warning: illegal pointer combination
|"util.c", line 65: warning: illegal pointer combination
|*** Error code 1
|make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `util.o'
Problem #3: If I blunder past that problem by changing signal to void
in util.c, I encounter the following:
|make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `getactive.o'
Has anyone else encountered these problems? If people have successfully
gotten NNTP1.5/RNN39 working on Suns running SUNOS 4.0.1, what is
different about my system? It is a vanilla SUNOS 4.0.1!
Any help gratefully accepted. Thanks in advance.
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