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Re: (Fwd) Re: sendmail on cygwin


--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:20:29PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> ><30 Nov 2000, 15:42 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub:>
> >< Re: (Fwd) Re: sendmail on cygwin >
> >
> >> Huh?  sendmail, of course.  You'll have to adapt an existing sendmail
> >> configuration to cygwin.
> >
> >Which OS is the nearest to cygwin, what do you think?
> >
> >Linux? BSDi? Sinix? Ultrix? GNU? HPUX?
> 
> I don't know.  Linux, I suppose.
> 
> This is one of those cases, where you need to play around to figure what
> is best.  We can't do the port for you.
> 
> >I tried at first to adapt Gnu config, but it is not so easy.
> >
> >Maybe WINNT, which is not included in the ostype dir, but it is supported by
> 
> >configure, because they have done a windows port.
> 
> WINNT != UNIX.  Cygwin == UNIX.
> 

You may want to `export CC=gcc -mno-win32' when you get to configuring.  Is
GNU's autoconf being used to manage the package?

If yes:
  CC='gcc -mno-win32' /path/to/source/configure
  make
should help you get started.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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