:-) Done, and with the new version the attrib you suggested is exactly what I needed :-)
I put this link in /usr/lib: /usr/lib/libnsl.a -> libident.a Compilation of smail-3.2.0.102-1 needed libnsl, none of the packages in the Debian1.3.1 binary CD contained such file, but I started thinking it could belong to a more recent bind/libident/libident-devel package... if none of the Debian1.3.1 packages had that library, maybe the required functions were already in some other libraries... I could eliminate -lnsl everywhere from the smail source tree, or just put that link. Notice: I had this warning at compile time (but it was not the only one): domain.c: In function nslookup': domain.c:119: warning: passing arg 7 of res_mkquery' from incompatible pointer type _THANK_YOU_ Martin (I would be going mad on the docs of the old smail version without your clue, assuming that smail, conceived for the uni*es and adopted by Debian, sure has been offering that feature since its very first versions). Nicola On 25 Apr 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "NB" == Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NB> Alas I fear that the version string "Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2" > NB> means _before_ that feature was added, sendmail does not work any > NB> more, the above line is what I got when I tried to send out mail > NB> as a user of the box. > > You said you hae Debian 1.3, so yes, the smail package is too old for > that. > > You can recompile smail. Get the new sources from the current Debian > stable tree (dists/stable/main/source), that is all three packages > (.diff.gz. .dsc .tar.gz - use a ftp programm, Netscape will decompress > them). > > Then run > dpkg-source -x smail*.dsc > cd into the created smail directory > fakeroot debian/rules binary > > >From the dependencies, you need at least libident-dev to build > it. Check the INSTALL/README file. > > Ciao, > Martin >
