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Posted by: elypsis Feb 13 2004, 01:45 PM

OK. i've been trying to somehow manage to get NetBSD and Xmail to play together for the past 2 weeks...still, no real progress. After contacting Davide, he said all that is needed for Xmail to build and run are: GNU GCC, GNU LIBC, and Pthreads...well...there is no Native Pthreads support in NetBSD until the 2.0 release which is coming "real real soon". There are several other pthread libraries available now, none of which worked in compiling, though the GNU Pth got the furthest in the compilation process with a little bit of code manipulation! Glibc - A guy named Velco had made a tutorial on how to port GLibc to NetBSD back in 2002 using his patches. Followed the guide, most patches fail, can't even build the toolchain, mostly because of his malformed GNU Gcc patch...so if i can't build gnu gcc, i can't build gnu libc. trying to run Xmail in Linux Emulation simply cannot be done unless i have that glibc library. anyone, anyone ever even try to get this to work?

Posted by: elypsis Apr 22 2004, 12:28 PM

WOW, reviving an old thread...i suppose nobody was really interested in this other than myself... After getting in contact with Pancake, he finally put together a patch to build Xmail using PKGSRC!!! This will only work with NetBSD Current, and the upcoming 2.0 release, since 1.6.* does not have native Pthreads...which apparently was the problem all along. Here is the link: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pkgsrc-wip/wip/xmail/ Not sure if the do-install in the Makefile works, since I prefer copying the files and MailRoot to my own directory, for convenience's sake. The only odd thing is: the headers display that the messages come from a server running "FreeBSD/Ix86" instead of NetBSD. Anyone know why? Doesn't really matter I suppose, I was EXTREMELY STOKED just to have it build on NetBSD. Now I'm just waiting for the NETBSD 2.0 release to convert my servers...oh man, this just made my year! BTW, NetBSD 2.0 tentatively scheduled for late May release!!!!