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From: abrams@bnlux0.bnl.gov (The Ancient Programmer)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: NNTP/RRN help needed
Message-ID: <1391@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: 25 Jul 89 20:54:26 GMT
Reply-To: abrams@bnlux0.UUCP (The Ancient Programmer)
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Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y.
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	I previously posted this "Request for Assistance" in 
news.software.nntp and received a couple of replies which said:
"It worked fine for me."  So I got new versions of nntp.1.5 and rrn.39
from Berkeley's anonymous ftp and tried again with the same results!
	Does anyone have any idea why I am getting these results while others
seem to be having no problem with the same code?

	Trying to install NNTP.1.5 & RRN.39 on a Sun 3 under OS 4.0.1.
Problem #1: In RRN.39, Configure requires that response_codes.h be in the
		nntp/common source directory, and in the distribution it is not
		there. Getting past that -

Problem #2: In util.c, signal is defined as:
		         int (*signal())();
	    while in /usr/include/signal.h signal is defined as:
			void    (*signal())();

	   This leads to an error during make of:
|"util.c", line 36: redeclaration of signal
|"util.c", line 64: warning: illegal pointer combination
|"util.c", line 65: warning: illegal pointer combination
|*** Error code 1
|make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `util.o'

Problem #3: If I blunder past that problem by changing signal to void
		in util.c, I encounter the following:
|make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `getactive.o'

	Has anyone else encountered these problems? If people have successfully
gotten NNTP1.5/RNN39 working on Suns running SUNOS 4.0.1, what is different
about my system? It is a vanilla SUNOS 4.0.1!

		Any help gratefully accepted.  Thanks in advance.

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