dem@meaddata.com (David Myers) (02/20/91)
Many of you are probably already aware of this, but it slipped my mind and stung me when I built nntpd 1.5.11 with gcc 1.39 for B News and ndbm under SunOS 4.0.3. I thought a reminder to others would be helpful. Remember to use the gcc option -fpcc-struct-return when building nntpd with gcc. The ndbm routines return structures, so you need to tell gcc to use the common structure return mechanism. If you don't do this, I've found that the nntpd will appear to function normally, but accessing articles via Message-ID will not work. If you only use nntpd for news reading, and don't run a newsreader that can access articles by Message-ID, you might not even notice a problem. Other than this, 1.5.11 has worked great here. Thanks, Stan & Co. -- David Myers (513) 865-1343 Mead Data Central Friends don't Interactive Systems P.O. Box 933 let friends dem@meaddata.com Dayton, Ohio 45401 use DOS. ...!uunet!meaddata!dem