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From: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: xref lines not working in rn
Keywords: xref rn news inews
Message-ID: <598@amms4.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 89 17:47:13 GMT
References: <244@wupulm.wustl.EDU> <2502@sigma.UUCP> <595@amms4.UUCP>
Reply-To: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross)
Organization: Eagle Clothes, Inc., New York, NY
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In article <595@amms4.UUCP> I wrote
>In article <2502@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
>>In article <244@wupulm.wustl.EDU> billc@wupulm.wustl.EDU (Bill Canning) writes:
>>>I have rn 4.3 (patch level 14) and news 2.11 (patch level 34(?))
>>>running on an HP 9000/360 HP-UX 6.2.  Unfortunately, the Xrefs
>>>line is not keeping me from seeing the same message a number of 
>>>times.
>>>I configured news to DOXREFS, and used the Configure file that came
>>>with rn.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

>>(I was waiting for a reply to the above, but saw none, sooo....)

>Me too!  Me too!

>We, also have this problem.  Our environment is:

>	rn 4.3 (patchlevel 40) and news 2.11.14 on a Plexus
>	P/75 running vanilla UNIX System 5 Release 2

>Any thoughts would be appreciated!

I received a couple of mail responses to this (Thanks to all who replied - a
disk space problem resulted in my loosing your notes, so I can't thank you
specifically - sorry :-)

It was pointed out that the NORELAY flag must be defined in config.h for
cross-referencing to work properly.  I looked back at my source installation
and sure enough, it wasn't.  I did a little investigation, and found the
problem to be in patch29 to the news software.  It seems that some site
somewhere munged the file slightly, resulting in the patch not being fully
applied.  There was a note in the beginning of the patch, however, that
addressed this problem (apparently some others had experienced messed up
patches earlier on - I didn't :-), stating to run patch with the -l flag.

When I originally installed rn, I had created a script to apply all the patches
automatically, and didn't catch the error.  When I redid everything by hand,
patch29 failed to update Configure and bits.c properly.  I reversed the patches,
and reapplied them using patch -l, and they went in just fine.

NOW IT WORKS!!  Hooray for the good guys.

To Bill Canning, who wrote:
>>>I have rn 4.3 (patch level 14) and news 2.11 (patch level 34(?))

I think you mean rn 4.3 patch level 34 and news 2.11 patch level 14 (at least
I hope so, as there are only 17 available patches to news 2.11 :-)

Try my above fix and see if it solves your problems.

Likewise to William Swan.

Cheers
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