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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: smail weirdness
Message-ID: <77@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 20 Aug 90 18:30:00 GMT
References: <SMARTIN.90Aug16083545@torsys02_1.uucp>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Athabasca University
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In article <SMARTIN.90Aug16083545@torsys02_1.uucp> smartin@torsys02_1.uucp (Stephen Martin) writes:
>I am trying to install smail 3.1 Patchlevel 18 and am seeing something really
>strange.  The program tests fine when i try it under my own user id but when
>i try it as root or with the program as setuid root it gives me a mapping
>failure from ld.so.  I have changed the EDITME file and modified both the
>CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to specify -Bstatic (I'm running SunOs 4.0.3 on sun3s) but
>it still does it.  The following is a trace of what happens. Anyone have any
>ideas??

Make sure to do a "make clobber; make" after changing the EDITME file, or
the changes might not make it into all the defs.*s and Makefiles. This
one bit me a few weeks back.

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