Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers?

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

John Wendel wrote:
> Phillip Pi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it me or does Pan v0.14.2.91 fail to handle large numbers of headers from a newsgroup? I 
> > tried to download about 3,044,000 headers from alt.binaries.hdtv newsgroup. My computer choked 
> > at about 1,900,000 headers when I came back from a 30 minutes break. HDD light was spinning, m 
> > KDE v3.3.4 was frozen and not responsive. I had to kill Pan via SSH. Of course that was slow as 
> > heck too. I eventually to kill X server because stuff was broken.
> >
> > I am using an Athlon XP 2200+ with 1 GB of RAM. Isn't that enough or is Pan not optimized for 
> > this big number of headers?
> >
> > Thank you in advance. :)
>
>
> Known problem, mostly fixed in the CVS version.  Just run these commands 
> to build yourself a version that works (with a few random bugs).
>
>  >export CVSROOT=":pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/gnome"
>
>  >cvs login
>
>  >cvs -z3 checkout pan
>
>  >cd pan
>
>  >./autogen.sh

Fails.  Apparently Pan depends on older versions?

~/tmp/pan$ ./autogen.sh
/usr/local/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found 2.59
checking for automake >= 1.4...
  testing automake-1.4... not found.
***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.4 installed
  to build Pan.  Download the appropriate package for
  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
    http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.4.tar.gz

checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
  testing glib-gettextize... found 2.6.5
checking for intltool >= 0.25...
  testing intltoolize... found 0.30
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
  testing pkg-config... found 0.15.0
/usr/local/bin/gnome-autogen.sh: line 154: --print-ac-dir: command not found
Checking for required M4 macros...
  glib-gettext.m4 not found
  intltool.m4 not found
  pkg.m4 not found
Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build Pan
  were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
  macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
  ACLOCAL_FLAGS?

~/tmp/pan$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.9.5

>  >make


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