to compile things with mgetty.

[Christopher Turlington/ Engeeneering School]

Hi,
I m using mgetty for 
receiving incoming calls (I m turning my linux box as a PPP server).
I did install my getty package:  rpm -ivh  mgetty-1.1.9-4.i386.rpm
I had to add the following line to /etc/inittab:
m1:3:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -x2 /dev/ttyS3  (which is the modem attached
to my home phone line and that users
from outside can use to dial in). At that point things seem Ok: a listing
of my process even  confirms me that mgetty is ready on ttyS3.
Here's my  problem:

I) I want to  know how to compile things with mgetty.
For exple, compiling mgetty for AUTO_PPP.
As I told you, the mgetty.i386.rpm package is already installed.
So all I need now is to intall the source package of mgetty in order to
compile..right??
This is what I did: rpm -ivh mgetty-1.1.9-4.src.rpm, but it failed.
I also did rpm -bb mgetty-1.1.9-4.src.rpm and it also failed.
I went reading 
/usr/doc/mgetty-1.1.9/README.1st and here 's what it says:
" To make the programs copy "policy.h-dist" to "policy.h". Edit it.
Also edit the Makefile to set CC=,CCFLAGS= and the various XXXDIR (LIB/MAN/
SBIN/SBINDIR to fit your system). Then run make . Make will create the
mgetty.texi file in "/doc/". Run make install. But..It doesnt say from
where, from what directory, for ie..to run make.

If this is what should be done to compile mgetty, sorry to tell you that I
really didnt get it.  Is there a simpler explanation??

So let's start from here.
What I should do, in order to compile mgetty for..say AUTO_PPP is:
1. Try to install again the source file mgetty-1.1.9-4.src.rpm. right??
2. Go to read usr/doc/mgetty-1.1.9/README.1st (oh! NO! Pls..is there
something clearer??)
3....

Thanks 

Christopher Turlington
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