Hi,
Yes.. I have had no luck with building pine either.
The compiler options don't seem to do much as well. Oh
well.. all of this is the result of buggy compilers
and apps. Only if everything was as portable as
advertised.
--- Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com> wrote:
> > Pine on my box (AlphaServer 400 4/233) does not
> run - just hangs.
> >
> > Here's machineinfo from proc:
> >
> > cpu : Alpha
> > cpu model : EV45
> > cpu variation : 7
> > cpu revision : 0
> > cpu serial number :
> > system type : Avanti
>
> >
> >
> > and here's a strace of trying to run pine:
>
> ...
>
> > stat("/dev/urandom", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0644,
> st_rdev=makedev(1, 9), ...})
> > = 0
>
> Yep. This is exactly where it gives me "Illegal
> Instruction". I went
> looking at what Debian and Red Hat do, but neither
> of them ship Pine 4.30.
> So I guess that means the solution is to build it on
> an older machine and
> package that up. I was able to build a working Pine
> 4.30 on my 21164
> once, but when I tried it again the next day, I
> couldn't build it anymore.
> I guess I let the magic smoke out of the build
> process.
>
> I'll work on that and post a test version of a Pine
> package for people to
> try out. If there are machines that it still
> doesn't work on, we'll find
> an older machine and build it on that. Using
> compiler flags does not
> appear to have any effect, by the way.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>
@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place
> random string here')),"\n";
>
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