Re: Problems building Zmailer

[tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)]

At 04:53 PM 12/22/94 PST, Byron Rakitzis wrote:
>The problem with the ctype multiple definition is because someone did
>
>	#define static
>
>in the zmailer source: this turns off the static keyword on these
>inline functions, and then gcc puts them into the text segment as
>standalone functions in addition to inlining them every time they
>are used. The result is obvious; every time the .h file with the
>inline function is included, it results in an extra definition in
>the .o
>
>I built zmailer for BSDI, and I had the same problem, as well as
>a few others. I tried to keep my changes logged in a file, and I
>can post this to the list, I don't think it is that large, or I can
>send it to whoever is interested. I can't guarantee the correctness
>of the patches, since I also made some local modifications to zmailer,
>but I think I made an effort to split out OS-specific problems.
>
>Byron.

  That seems reasonable.  BSDI is very close to FreeBSD (both BSD4.4 based),
so I expect that most of same things will apply.

  I would appreciate a copy of this.  Either to me personally, or to the
list.  However, if everything works out, I may have it built soon myself :).

Tom