All right, that did it! I had tried direct compilation previously but not with slx, so somewhere it was complaining and I didn't look further into it.
Thanks, now I can put mutt back where it belongs and go to bed with a clear conscience :-) <yawn> PS: I'd _still_ like to know why those debs didn't work in the first place... "Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > I didn't play with the debs. > I just went to: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/ > and downloaded: pine4.32.tar.gz > > Use: tar -xzvf pine4.32.tar.gz > cd pine4.32 > ./build slx > > In a few minutes Pine 4.32 was built!!! As "root" I copied > the pine4.32/bin/pine executable to /usr/local/bin and I was > done. No patches were needed. Also worked on SuSE 7.0 > > -- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com > Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 & FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: > > ->Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. > ->Here it is > ->(it's pine 3-96) > -> > -> > ->apt-get source -b pine > -> > -><fetching data...OK> > -><compiling...OK> > -> > ->and then: > -> > ->install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin > ->install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory > ->make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1 > ->make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pine-3.96M' > ->make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 > ->Build command 'cd pine-3.96M && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. > -> > -> > ->Thanks for any help, I don't like mutt that much (besides, I'm used to > ->pine:) > ->Romain > -> > -> > ->-- > ->To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ->with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -> > ->