[fetchmail]I cannot build fetchmail :(

[Peter Church]

Hi,
    Thankyou :) I noticed that lex was involved on saturday night and 
installed flex (removed lex ) but it did not help I will try your builds 
suggested build

Best regards,

Peter


Matthias Andree wrote:

>"Peter Church" <peter.church@church-consultancy.co.uk> writes:
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>>    I am trying to build a version of fetchmail with ssl included (needed for
>>gmail )
>>my platform is sparc running solaris 10 openssl is installed in
>>/usr/local
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>Your problem apparently isn't OpenSSL related. It may instead be a
>problem with Solaris' lex. I believe fetchmail has only ever been built
>with GNU flex, and this is what works for me.
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>No need to install flex though, just see if you can build 6.2.9-rc7,
>available from the two sites shown below. The 6.2.9-rc7 tarball ships
>with ready-built rcfile_[ly].c files it should work for you without lex
>or yacc hassles.
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><https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1824>
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><http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/> (at the very top of the page)
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>If 6.2.9-rc7 still doesn't compile, drop me a line on the list (and Cc:
>personally, as an exception from the rule to keep everything on the list).
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>I think 6.2.9-rc7 is in pretty good shape. I hope to release the same
>code as 6.3.0 later this month.
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>HTH,
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