From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 7 11:20:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA09791 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:20:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom11.netcom.com (root@netcom11.netcom.com [192.100.81.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09781 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:20:52 -0800 (PST) From: Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com Received: from njcorp.akbs.com by netcom11.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id LAA24339; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:18:44 -0800 Received: from cc:Mail by njcorp.akbs.com id AA818374791; Thu, 07 Dec 95 14:18:00 EST Date: Thu, 07 Dec 95 14:18:00 EST Encoding: 31 Text Message-Id: <9511078183.AA818374791@njcorp.akbs.com> To: Adam David Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nntpxfer Exectable File Missing Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Can you tell me where I can get nntp ports files. On the http://www.FreeBSD.org. I tried several times to download the description for C News and NNTP transport but never success. I don't know whether ports files is that or not. If it is, can you mail it to me please? Also is this compile will generate the file named "nntpsend.csh"? Thanks in advance. Ruiyuan Jiang rjiang@akbs.com >> You can compile it by yourself. Get the nntp ports files (read >> section 4.2 on the handbook on how to get these stuff), and edit the >> patch by hand before you compile it. It should be in >> >> /usr/ports/news/nntp/patches/patch-aa >> >> Go to line 47, and delete the `#' near the beginning of the line. > Also in /usr/ports/news/nntp/work/nntp-t5/xfer/nntpxfer.c > after compilation fails, you will need to delete line 627. > It's the line that reads: > extern char *sys_errlist[]; > Then it will compile normally. I will update this soon for > the main ports collection. -- > Adam David