Elm and XENIX

[Bill Burton]

In article <10861 at codas.att.com>  writes:
>I am running XENIX 386 and would like to use the Elm 
>mail system.  I have the latest source code for Elm but 
>cannot get it to run on my system.  What can I do to 
>make it work with XENIX 386.  I have Rel 2.2.2 with
>latest 386 development system.  
>
>
>Thank you
>
>Jim Voytek
>codas!pbsfwb!jim

I have been recently attempting to get Elm 1.7 working on SCO Xenix 286
and it appears that I have succeded for the most part.  The one problem
is that occaisionally I get a "Segment Violation" and sometimes a core
dump.  This happens if I use the "builtin" pager, or when I try and save
the configuration options. 

Have compiled with the following flags (if I remember correctly):
	CC: -O -Ml2 -Mt24 -LARGE
	LD: -Ml2 -F 4000
Would appreciate any input on how to solve this segmentation problem.

I am quite sure that that all the modifications made also apply to Xenix
386 with the exception of the compiling and linking flags.

Here is a brief list of some of the changes I made:
o   hdrs/sysdefs.h: ifdefs for locations of mail directory, rmail and vi
    using M_XENIX define
o   modified Makefile's for appropriate compiling flags above
o   Chmod 777 /usr/spool/mail
o   Chmod 600 /usr/spool/mail/*
o   src/encode.c - added a dummy crypt() function so ld would't
    complain.  Encryption should be ifdef-able.

Originally I tried to modify Configure.sh to set up everything for Xenix
and concluded that to maintain compatability with everything else would
require a bit of work.  The time might be better spent getting Larry
Wall's Metaconfig and writing a new Configure script from scratch.

Would appreciate any comments, tips, patches, etc.  I'm sure someone
else out in netland already has this running on SCO Xenix 286/386.

Elm is a great program (thanks, Dave!) and I would like to contribute
some time and energy to improve it particularly in the ease of
installation. 

-Bill

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