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elypsis	Posted: Feb 1 2004, 11:13 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 22 Member No.: 676 Joined: 31-July 03	I've been trying to compile Xmail on NetBSD. No positive results. Has anyone here successfully built XMail on NetBSD? If so, please share exactly how you did it. I had to copy a couple files, and install the PTH package, it gets to a certain point, and then errors out: In file included from SysDep.cpp:40: SysDepBSD.cpp: In function `int SysSetThreadPriority(void , int)': SysDepBSD.cpp:1821: aggregate `struct sched_param SchParam' has incomplete type and cannot be initialized SysDepBSD.cpp:1823: confused by earlier errors, bailing out gmake: ** [SysDep.o] Error 1 does anyone know of any patches out there or have any tips? I've seen someone start to write a patch, but, that seemed to have stopped halfway through last year. NetBSD is my OS of choice, unfortunately, I'm running XMail on Linux now, just because I have to.

hschneider	Posted: Feb 1 2004, 11:37 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02	Please contact XMail's author at davidel@xmailserver.org I'm sure, that he is interested in adapting it to NetBSD ... -------------------- Bye, Harald -- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.46 NOW: XMail Server Tools -- Cross platform remote queue management! -- Message analyzing on the fly! -- Builtin diagnostics knowledge base! -- Manages multiple mail queues! Sponsored by CD-Produktion und DVD-Produktion and Homestaging Saarland - Immobilien schneller verkaufen in der Region Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz und Luxembourg

hschneider	Posted: Feb 1 2004, 11:37 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02	BTW: What is your NetBSD version ? -------------------- Bye, Harald -- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.46 NOW: XMail Server Tools -- Cross platform remote queue management! -- Message analyzing on the fly! -- Builtin diagnostics knowledge base! -- Manages multiple mail queues! Sponsored by CD-Produktion und DVD-Produktion and Homestaging Saarland - Immobilien schneller verkaufen in der Region Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz und Luxembourg

elypsis	Posted: Feb 2 2004, 12:47 AM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 22 Member No.: 676 Joined: 31-July 03	ver 1.6.1

elypsis	Posted: Feb 13 2004, 01:45 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 22 Member No.: 676 Joined: 31-July 03	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?

hschneider	Posted: Feb 13 2004, 04:08 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02	The gcc binary package is on CD7 of NetBSD 1.6.1. I'm currently downloading NetBSD to check things out. But this can take some time, since my schedule is very busy ... -------------------- Bye, Harald -- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.46 NOW: XMail Server Tools -- Cross platform remote queue management! -- Message analyzing on the fly! -- Builtin diagnostics knowledge base! -- Manages multiple mail queues! Sponsored by CD-Produktion und DVD-Produktion and Homestaging Saarland - Immobilien schneller verkaufen in der Region Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz und Luxembourg

elypsis	Posted: Apr 22 2004, 12:28 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 22 Member No.: 676 Joined: 31-July 03	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!!!!

hschneider	Posted: Apr 22 2004, 01:17 PM
No - I'm not an answering script ... Group: Admin Posts: 6631 Member No.: 195 Joined: 19-June 02	>does not have native Pthreads Indeed, that was the prob ... Thanks for this valuable feedback! Just change this line in SysTypesBSD.h : #define SYS_OS_PORT "FreeBSD/" SYS_CPU_PORT to #define SYS_OS_PORT "NetBSD/" SYS_CPU_PORT Thanks! -------------------- Bye, Harald -- Download XMail Queue Manager 1.46 NOW: XMail Server Tools -- Cross platform remote queue management! -- Message analyzing on the fly! -- Builtin diagnostics knowledge base! -- Manages multiple mail queues! Sponsored by CD-Produktion und DVD-Produktion and Homestaging Saarland - Immobilien schneller verkaufen in der Region Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz und Luxembourg

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