Mutt 1.5.20, compressed and nntp patches

Troy Piggins

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Aug 11, 2009, 3:14:27 AM8/11/09

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Trying to compile Mutt 1.5.20 with the compressed and nntp
patches from http://mutt.org.ua/download/mutt-1.5.20/

Never had a problem before, but with this version when I try to
configure I get error messages:

$ ./configure --enable-compressed --enable-nntp
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-compressed, --enable-nntp
...

The patches are applied in the usual way

$ patch -p1 < ../patch-1.5.20.rr.compressed
$ patch -p1 < ../patch-1.5.20.vvv.nntp

If I compile the patched source without the above options, or
obviously I compile the vanilla source, I get no errors and all
is fine.

Any ideas?

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Thomas Wiegner

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Aug 11, 2009, 5:10:35 PM8/11/09

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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Troy Piggins <usene...@piggo.com> wrote:
> Trying to compile Mutt 1.5.20 with the compressed and nntp
> patches from http://mutt.org.ua/download/mutt-1.5.20/
>
> Never had a problem before, but with this version when I try to
> configure I get error messages:
>
> $ ./configure --enable-compressed --enable-nntp
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-compressed, --enable-nntp
> ...

This is normal. When typing "make" there should be run a
regeneration of configure via automake and after that
the --enable-compressed option should be known.

Is perhaps your automake outdated? mutt-1.5.20 needs a quite new
one, have you followed the instructions from the original source of
the compressed folder patch?

http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/

Cheers,

Thomas

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James Wilkinson

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Aug 11, 2009, 5:23:05 PM8/11/09

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Troy Piggins wrote:
> Trying to compile Mutt 1.5.20 with the compressed and nntp
> patches from http://mutt.org.ua/download/mutt-1.5.20/
>
> Never had a problem before, but with this version when I try to
> configure I get error messages:
>
> $ ./configure --enable-compressed --enable-nntp
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-compressed, --enable-nntp
> ...

I believe that these errors are merely cosmetic. Try going ahead and
compiling. (I did, and this message is posted from an nntp-patched Mutt
1.5.20).

Hope this helps,

James.

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Troy Piggins

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Aug 11, 2009, 5:30:16 PM8/11/09

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* Thomas Wiegner wrote :

> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Troy Piggins <usene...@piggo.com> wrote:
>> Trying to compile Mutt 1.5.20 with the compressed and nntp
>> patches from http://mutt.org.ua/download/mutt-1.5.20/
>>
>> Never had a problem before, but with this version when I try to
>> configure I get error messages:
>>
>> $ ./configure --enable-compressed --enable-nntp
>> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-compressed, --enable-nntp
>> ...
>
> This is normal. When typing "make" there should be run a
> regeneration of configure via automake and after that
> the --enable-compressed option should be known.
>
> Is perhaps your automake outdated? mutt-1.5.20 needs a quite new
> one, have you followed the instructions from the original source of
> the compressed folder patch?
>
> http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/

Aah, I hadn't been there since there isn't a 1.5.20 version of
compressed there (only 1.5.19), but there is on VVV's site.

Funny, I haven't had to do that "./prepare" step before, usually
just "./configure", but doing this now works:

$ ./prepare --enable-compression --enable-nntp
$ make
$ sudo make install

Thanks Thomas.

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Troy Piggins

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Aug 11, 2009, 8:44:39 PM8/11/09

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* James Wilkinson wrote :

> Troy Piggins wrote:
>> Trying to compile Mutt 1.5.20 with the compressed and nntp
>> patches from http://mutt.org.ua/download/mutt-1.5.20/
>>
>> Never had a problem before, but with this version when I try to
>> configure I get error messages:
>>
>> $ ./configure --enable-compressed --enable-nntp
>> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-compressed, --enable-nntp
>> ...
>
> I believe that these errors are merely cosmetic. Try going ahead and
> compiling. (I did, and this message is posted from an nntp-patched Mutt
> 1.5.20).

No, they weren't cosmetic. Compiling ended with errors.

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RS Wood

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Aug 12, 2009, 5:29:12 AM8/12/09

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Reasonably, this is the point where you would tell us which errors you
got. Just a suggestion.
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Troy Piggins

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Aug 12, 2009, 4:02:14 PM8/12/09

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* RS Wood wrote :

> In article <2009081...@usenet.piggo.com>, Troy Piggins wrote:

> [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 13 lines snipped |=---]

>>> compiling. (I did, and this message is posted from an nntp-patched Mutt
>>> 1.5.20).
>>
>> No, they weren't cosmetic. Compiling ended with errors.
>
> Reasonably, this is the point where you would tell us which errors you
> got. Just a suggestion.

Moot point now. The problem was solved by Thomas and I posted
what I did to fix it in the other subthread.

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