Re: Building on Mac OS X (was Re: a quick mailutils question)

[Shane Owenby]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:50:55PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Sergey, any suggestions on this? Maybe the whole function can
> > be commented out based on availability of getutent()?
> 
> Unfortunately, it cannot. The function determines the tty which
> the user is currently using. Without it comsatd will not function
> at all.
> 
> Are the *utent functions present on OS X, Shane? If they are not,
> are there any functions providing the same functionality?

I don't believe the *utent functions are present on OS X.

(dhcp179) /usr/include% grep -ir getutent *
grep: warning: gcc/darwin/2.95.2/g++/std: recursive directory loop
grep: warning: gcc/darwin/default/g++/std: recursive directory loop
(dhcp179) /usr/include% grep -ir setutent *
grep: warning: gcc/darwin/2.95.2/g++/std: recursive directory loop
grep: warning: gcc/darwin/default/g++/std: recursive directory loop
(dhcp179) /usr/include%

I don't know the OS X system well enough to determine 
the code that is providing the *utent functionality.

My original interest was getting frm to work with OS X.
The mailutils build was able to get far enough to accomplish
that goal....However, if you let me know the commands
to run that will help you diagnose the current problems then
I am happy to continue providing OS X tests/info.

Thanks for your work on mailutils.

Shane