[1129] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: moira changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sat Oct 28 05:10:18 1995
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 05:09:50 -0400
To: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199510270510.BAA04481@the-other-woman.MIT.EDU> (message from Jonathon Weiss on Fri, 27 Oct 1995 01:10:36 EDT)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi. You wrote:
I made a couple of changes to mailmaint and blanche in the sipb-athena
tree. (I just made these changes in the athena tree earlier tonight.)
I have not built these for linux, because list time I tried to build
moira for linux I failed miserably, and I don't feel like debugging
it.
I rebuilt moira and made a new moira package available.
This is my guess about the problem you had building it: The moira
Makefiles strip all of the objects in the libraries by running "ld
-x". On Keesh, it's possible that gcc was producing an a.out object,
and ld was looking for an elf object. I edited Imake.rules so that it
doesn't run ld on Linux, since it doesn't seem really necessary
anyway. Then, it built cleanly by running make Makefiles; make
CC="gcc -b i486-linuxaout".
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
