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

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

Duncan wrote:
> Rinaldi J. Montessi posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
> below,  on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:27:21 -0400:
>
> > John Wendel wrote:
> > > Phillip Pi wrote:
<snip>
> > > 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
<snip>
> > Fails.  Apparently Pan depends on older versions?

> I'd imagine so.  automake is one of those weird apps where pretty much
> each /minor/ version is incompatible.  Where a normal app would change
> major version if it needed to break backward compatibility, automake
> apparently changes minor version.  autoconf is similar, but not as bad.

I was hoping they weren't that brain dead.  I created symlinks from 
automake-1.9 and aclocal-1.9 to *-1.4 and it worked.

Thanks for your (as always) detailed response.

And, Phillip, sorry for hijacking your thread :-)

P.S.  Will the ants outlast the roaches?

Rinaldi
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