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- MH 6.8.3 for Linux
- ==================
-
- This distribution consists of two packages: mh-6.8.3-bin.tar.gz contains
- shared binaries, and mh-6.8.3-patch.tar.gz contains patches to the UCI MH
- 6.8.3 distribution. The patches will allow the building of shared or static
- binaries, although the implementation is still a bit of a hack. You may
- download either or both packages, depending on whether you want sources,
- binaries, or both.
-
- You will need to add a user for POP, and another for BBoards. I used:
-
- pop:x:13:13:POP administrator:/usr/lib/mh:/bin/sh
- bboards:x:14:14:BBoards administrator:/usr/spool/bboards:/bin/sh
-
- Do this before unpacking the binary distribution to avoid problems with buggy
- versions of GNU tar, or before installing binaries built from the source
- patch distribution. (Note that the BBoards spool area is not included in the
- binary distribution.)
-
- mh-6.8.3-bin.tar.gz should be unpacked from the root directory. It places
- files in /usr/bin/mh, /usr/lib/mh, and /usr/sbin (popd), installs manpages in
- /usr.man/man?/*.?mh, and installs the MH shared library libmh.so.2.0 in /lib.
- (WARNING!!! The internals of MH have changed; you can not use the older
- shared library with the new binaries, or vice versa.) Add /usr/bin/mh to your
- PATH and you're set. (Ed. note: I don't want to hear about the choice of
- directories. Complain to the FSSTND folks if you don't like it, or grab the
- source package and recompile it with different paths.)
-
- mh-6.8.3-patch.tar.gz can be unpacked anywhere, although it's convenient to
- unpack it into the top directory of the UCI MH distribution. After unpacking,
- issue the commands:
-
- patch -p0 -N < DIFFS-pre
- cp -f MH conf/MH
- (cd conf/mh; make; mhconfig MH)
- make clean
-
- (If you want to change the configuration, edit conf/MH after the cp -f.)
-
- If you want to build shared binaries, you must issue the command:
-
- patch -p0 -N < DIFFS-post
-
- after the "make clean" step. Depending on what changes you may have made to
- conf/MH, you may see several failures; you will need to patch those files
- manually. Eventually, I will get this into the distribution makefiles and the
- post-patch won't be necessary.
-
- !!! If you do not patch the binaries, you may want to edit doc/Makefile and
- !!! change the definitions of MAN1EXT, MAN5EXT, and MAN8EXT to add the "mh"
- !!! suffix to the manpages when they are installed. This can not easily be
- !!! done automatically; fixing it will require some changes to mhconfig.
-
- Everything is now ready: "make" will build the distribution. (You will see
- various warnings because NULL is defined as "(void *) 0" instead of simply
- "0", and for shared binaries the DLL tools will complain about relative
- JUMP_DIR settings. The alternative having been to hardcode the full pathname,
- forcing everyone to unpack MH in /varopt, I chose to accept the warnings.)
-
- "make install" will place the binaries and configuration files in the
- appropriate locations, and will install libmh.so.2.0 in /lib and run ldconfig.
-
- If you need help building MH beyond this, I suggest reading the file READ-ME
- in the top level of the UCI MH distribution.
-
- Brandon S. Allbery
- bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
-