From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 17 02:21:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA07271 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 02:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA07262 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 02:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA16885; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 11:20:55 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA06976; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 11:20:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA10831; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 11:00:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608170900.LAA10831@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Gnu configure problems (mail problems too!) To: dcmyers@access.digex.net (David Myers) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 11:00:57 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608170415.XAA20531@access2.digex.net> from David Myers at "Aug 16, 96 11:15:32 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Myers wrote: > Folks -- sorry for the continuing problems with my mail messages. They're > getting truncated, apparently because the freebsd.org mail server doesn't > like my home-grown mail software. That's a separate problem, and I hope > you'll excuse the multiple messages. I apologize for that. No idea about your GNU configure problem, but your _mail_ problem is easy. ;-) > ===> Configuring for flex-2.5.3 > . > .. Well, the line with a single dot traditionally means ``end of message'' for your mailer. (It still means ``end of message'' for the SMTP protocol, but i think the single dot is being escaped somehow to protect it from closing the DATA connection.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)