On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:38:46PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:00:18PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:17:03PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 06:24:08PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > > I'm trying to build mutt 1.5.16 on a BSD system (it's not mine, it's > > > > my hosting provider, Gradwell.Net). > > Do you have root access to this box at all?
No. > If not, it doesn't make sense to use ports because you have to install > some dependencies to /usr/local ... > That's what I suspected. > > > If that doesn't work, you'll either need to check > > > the BSD ports, or find replacements for these functions somewhere, and > > > hack the build system or some Mutt code (maybe util.c) to include them. > > > > > I did go and look at the download links to BSD ports but, to be quite > > honest, they made little sense to me. I.e. I got to:- > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mutt&stype=name > > > > ... but then didn't really know what to do. There's a download link > > to a .tgz file but not being a FreeBSD person I haven't a clue what to > > do with that file and I don't even know whether it will install > > non-root. > > You downloaded a binary package. The current production release of > FreeBSD is 6.2. All packages are precompiled for 6.2 so you will not > be able to use them on your machine. 4.8 has so support since years > now. > > There's a non-official legacy support for 4.x called 'end-of-life' but > you (or your provider) will have to upgrade to this version. > In this case you can move to 6.2 instead :) > I think Gradwell have their own reasons for staying at 4.8, it could be that other machines have later versions (and I might be able to use one of those other machines). I'm going to ask around to see what's available. > > > > Can anyone suggest how to get around this problem, don't say upgrade > > > > the OS as I said it's not mine so that's not a possibility. > > > > > > You might be able to get your hosting provider to do it. It's > > > Likely to fix the problem, and likely to fix other problems... > > > > > I'll ask on the Gradwell newsgroups, I know quite a few Gradwell > > customers use mutt and it may be that someone has built/installed > > 1.5.x already. > > Check out the current FreeBSD patches for mutt-devel, too. You can > find all of them at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/mutt-devel/files/ > > Feel free to contact me if you have more FreeBSD specific questions. > Thanks. -- Chris Green
