I'm looking at some of the less commonly used packages in BLFS (for openssl-1.0.0a), of which I think qpopper is one. At some point in the not-so-recent past, glibc (2.10.1, apparently - May 2009 ) started defining getline unconditionally (I thought it added it, but a debian bug report says it used to be defined only with -DNU_SOURCE and it doesn't really matter). Since then, most packages have been fixed. My belief is that any package defining its own version of getline will fail.
Trying to build qpopper-4.0.9 (and the latest stable 4.0.18) I hit this problem. I can't find any references to qpopper on blfs-support after 2006, so if anyone can confirm that it FTBFS (fails to build from source) I think we should just drop it from the book! Looking at debian, there is a 'debian patch' (careful choice of words there - it creates a patch somewhere in the debian/ directory) which *could* probably be used to fix this. But if nobody uses the package, I can't see the point. Can someone confirm that it fails to build, please, or else say that I'm wrong and it *does* build for them ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
