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Date:      Sun, 21 Apr 2002 08:47:26 -0700
From:      Scott Blachowicz <scott@sabami.seaslug.org>
To:        Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        Scott Blachowicz <scott@mail.dsab.rresearch.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/36307: nmh port cuts off last part of sender domain
Message-ID:  <20020421084726.A95406@sabami.seaslug.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204211500.g3LF0cuK029691@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:00:38AM -0700
References:  <scott@mail.dsab.rresearch.com> <200204211500.g3LF0cuK029691@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:00:38AM -0700, Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote:
> ...
> > For C code patching, all this does is prevent the autoconf stuff from
> > checking for a uname(3) function, so it won't use that and will, instead,
> > use gethostname() which has a bigger max length.
> 
> I have no problem applying the patch to fix the problem.  I just cannot 
> recreate the problem to verify it.  :/

And the other thing is that your hostname (as returned by uname(3)) has to
be longer than the MAX_NMLN number of chars - 32 on my FreeBSD 4.3 system
and on the original reporter's system.

> > And, other than that, I tweaked the Makefile to allow port builders
> > more flexibility in the options that get passed down to the
> > 'configure' process (per a request by a user).
>
> I will work with you to resolve this PR.

Sounds good.

--
Scott Blachowicz

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