Re: [Pan-users] Compiling Error Pan 0.1.36

[Duncan]

Chrome307 posted on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:44:16 -0700 as excerpted:

>  I was wondering if someone could give me some tips/advice about
>  installing Pan
> I'm using Linux - kernel 2.6.332

I see you've a couple replies already, including a try-again request from 
Heinrich, so I'll let you try that, for now.  Meanwhile, however, a 
couple other points.

1) I don't know your distro, but your versions appear to be REALLY 
screwed up.

* The 2.6 kernel ended with 2.6.39.  The next kernel, which would have 
been 2.6.40, was renumbered as 3.0.  So there's no such thing as 2.6.332 
-- by nearly three hundred microversions!  Maybe the 332 indicates kernel 
3.3.2, with a 2.6 prefix attached to try to fool old software?  I know 
some distros are doing tricks like that, but do try to find out what 
(upstream) kernel version you're actually running, and report it as such, 
or it's of little use reporting at all.

* Similarly, pan should be 0.136.  0.1.x was a VERY long time ago!  (I've 
been running pan since I switched to Linux in late 2001, and IIRC started 
with the then gnome-1 based pan 0.11.something, so 0.1.x must /surely/ be 
back into the last century, probably several years back into the last 
century!)

2) If you must post in HTML, please at least turn it off for the pan 
list.  There are reasons pan doesn't do HTML, and some of us actually 
read this list using pan via list2news conversion to newsgroup at 
gmane.org.  Your post looked VERY ugly in pan due to the HTML.  I know 
this was your first post to the list and didn't realize, which is why I'm 
asking.  Just now that you know, please use plain text only for your 
messages, at least to this list, from now on.  Thanks.  =:^)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
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