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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index df418399..565fb94f 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/02/12 01:14:27 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/02/15 22:58:43 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ IP address?</a><br> <h1>Build-time problems:</h1> -<a href="#B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a><br> -<a href="#B2">B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a><br> +<a href="#B1">B1. Make coughs and dies when building on FreeBSD.</a><br> +<a href="#B2">B2. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a><br> +<a href="#B3">B3. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a><br> <h1>Fetchmail configuration file grammar questions:</h1> @@ -651,7 +652,14 @@ TCP/IP capacity (which tends to improve bandwidth but not necessarily latency).<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="B1">B1. Make coughs and dies when building on FreeBSD.</a></h2> + +The vendor-supplied make on FreeBSD systems can only be used within +FreeBSD's "scope", e.g. the ports collection. Type "gmake" to run GNU +make and better things will happen.<P> + +<hr> +<h2><a name="B2">B2. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a></h2> In the immortal words of Alan Cox the last time this came up: ``Take the Solaris lex and stick it up the backside of a passing Sun @@ -664,7 +672,7 @@ I couldn't have put it better myself, and ain't going to try now.<P> (The same problem has been reported under HP-UX v10.20 and IRIX)<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="B2">B2. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="B3">B3. I get link failures when I try to build fetchmail.</a></h2> If you get errors resembling these<P> @@ -2981,7 +2989,7 @@ switching to IMAP and using a short expunge interval.<p> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/02/12 01:14:27 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/02/15 22:58:43 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |