I can't seem to build pine on ubuntu the saga: now it's cc errors??

Tue Dec 13 15:20:39 UTC 2005

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I got slightly off topic in a thread about getting mc and asked for
advice getting pine (the last of my "must have" console applications I
need to make ubuntu bearable...

I asked about a U Wash .deb file and a kind hearted list member replied...

It would appear that (in a previous thread) on Dec 12, Hodgins Family did say:

>Generally, attempts to cross-hybridize Debian and Ubuntu carry a caveat!---  be
>vewy cawefuw!
>
>Could give it a shot just to see what happens OR whip over to here:
>http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~decockd/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/InstallingUbuntuTOC
>and look for the line that says  "Compiling the Current version of Pine"
> 
>Might work OK if you compile from a tar file.

So I thought the wise thing to do was to attempt to figure out how to
build pine...

I compared the instructions in the above quoted link with what I could
find in U Wash's pages, and both sets of instructions were in basic
agreement. (provided that "slx" was the correct linux argument to pines
build command for ubuntu.) U wash also suggested doing a "build clean"
first however. Which is how I leaned that I needed to do an 
"apt-get install make" first. then on my next build attempt I got a
warning about not having openssl... "apt-get" again... But I got the build
warning again, This led me to some info on U Wash's page that said that
some linux use a non standard directory for openssl (IE NOT
/usr/local/ssl) which didn't exist on my machine and the man page didn't
say where openssl put it. So I searched around and found an /etc/ssl
with an certs dir in it so I added "SSLDIR" to the build command
"./build slx SSLDIR=/etc/ssl" And got a bit further. But it seamed I
also didn't have cc. So I did an apt-get for gcc. and tried again...

I got further this time... the 1st thing in the terminal window buffer
that looked like an error to me was:

In file included from osdep.c:41:
nl_unix.c: In function 'strcrlfcpy':
nl_unix.c:41: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness

There then followed many lines ending in "differ in signedness" <see
URL below for full error text...>

Then quite a few other errors prefixed with various .c and .h filenames

And finally terminating with:

+---------------------------------------------+
| Problems building c-client                  |
|                                             |
| Please check the output above for a         |
| possible explanation for this failure       |
+---------------------------------------------+

<Wimper>: could someone who has a clue please look at the error message
text at the url below  and let me in on the bad news???  the root shell
window snipage begins with the "apt-get install gcc" command and ends at
my wits end.

Thanks
 Joe

Tue Dec 13 10:16:35 EST 2005
The error text can (for at least the next 30 days) be found at:

http://members.ttlc.net/~jtwdyp/592LinesOfCapturedPineBuildError.txt

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