nmh-1.5 RC2 released

Jerry Heyman

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May 6, 2012, 2:57:11 PM5/6/12

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Greetings all,

I am pleased to announce to second release candidate (RC2) of nmh 1.5 is
now available. You can find it for download here:

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.5-RC2.tar.gz

Changes from RC1 include portability fixes for OpenBSD and Solaris and
a number of minor documentation updates.

As always, please send feedback to nmh-w...@nongnu.org.

Ken Hornstein
on behalf of the nmh development team

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AMX

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May 17, 2012, 5:25:42 PM5/17/12

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On Sun, 06 May 2012 14:57:11 -0400, Jerry Heyman <hey...@acm.org> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am pleased to announce to second release candidate (RC2) of nmh 1.5 is
> now available. You can find it for download here:
>
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.5-RC2.tar.gz
>
> Changes from RC1 include portability fixes for OpenBSD and Solaris and
> a number of minor documentation updates.
>
> As always, please send feedback to nmh-w...@nongnu.org.

uname -a
Linux xyz 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:00:17 UTC 2012
x86_64 GNU/Linux

cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.5

checking for dbm in ndbm.h... no
checking for dbm in db.h and db... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and db... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and db1... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and ndbm... no
checking for dbm in db1/ndbm.h and db1... no
checking for dbm in gdbm/ndbm.h and gdbm... no
checking for dbm in gdbm/ndbm.h and gdbm_compat -lgdbm... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and gdbm... no
checking for dbm in ndbm.h and gdbm_compat -lgdbm... no
configure: error: could not find a working ndbm library/header
combination

ls /usr/include/gdbm*
/usr/include/gdbm.h /usr/include/gdbm-ndbm.h

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Jerry Heyman

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May 20, 2012, 2:39:11 PM5/20/12

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Please take this up on the mailing list as was mentioned
in the announcement (nmh-w...@nongnu.org). The prime
developers don't have access to Debian per:'

"I don't have access to any Debian systems ... and I don't know why
getting a valid dbm library is so hard under Linux. Maybe there's another
dbm package that would work? We don't actually check for gdbm.h, but
instead we check for gdbm/gdbm.h."

My Mageia 1 Linux distro has /usr/include/gdbm.h as a symlink to
/usr/include/gdbm/gdbm.h

[jerry@unix Download]$ ls -l /usr/include/gdbm.h
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 23 09:33 /usr/include/gdbm.h -> gdbm/gdbm.h
[jerry@unix Download]$ uname -a
Linux pdq 2.6.38.8-desktop-10.mga #1 SMP Wed Jan 25 10:17:18 UTC 2012 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

And it compiles just fine.

jerry

Jerry Heyman

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May 21, 2012, 8:30:52 AM5/21/12

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A Debian user has presented with the solution:

"it's not. the official (outdated) nmh package, for example,
properly specifies that it build-depends on libdb-dev.

apt-get install libdb-dev and things work."

jerry

AMX

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May 21, 2012, 5:24:13 PM5/21/12

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On Mon, 21 May 2012 08:30:52 -0400, Jerry Heyman <hey...@acm.org> wrote:

>>> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.5-RC2.tar.gz

>>>
>> configure: error: could not find a working ndbm library/header
>> combination
>>

> apt-get install libdb-dev

> and things work."

They do. Thanks.

AMX

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