can anyone build the pine rpm from the source rom?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sat Feb 18 17:29:47 UTC 2006


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> 
>>Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>>  since (as i understand it) i need to rebuild pine from the source to add
>>>support for SMTP authentication, i grabbed the source rpm:
>>>  pine-4.64-1.rf.src.rpm
>>>from dag.wieers.com and just did the basic "rmpmbuild --rebuild"
>>>as a quick test to see if it would build out of the box, but what i got
>>
>>Not a direct answer, but you can also get a pine rpm/srpm from
>>rpm.livna.org.
> 
> 
> ah, thanks, i'll give that a shot.
> 
> rday
> 
> p.s.  if anyone wants to chime in here, i'd feel better knowing that,
> in order to add SMTP authentication to pine, i really do have to edit
> the source and add a PASSFILE= directive to pine/pine.h before
> rebuilding.  unlesss there's a simpler solution.  thanks again.

AFAIK, PASSFILE only adds the ability to save passwords from session to 
session.  And, livna's pine already has that feature enabled, provided 
the file ~/.pine.pwd exists.

-- Rex




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