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From: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Seek internal documentation
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Date: 13 Feb 91 16:49:02 GMT
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Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
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donovan@cs.nyu.edu writes:
>We recently upgraded to version 6.7....  If I try running `inc'...
>I get the error message `install-mh: invocation error'.

>I tried looking at the source code, but it's formidable.  I found that
>the error message itself seems to occur because my file `.mh_profile'
>is already defined, but I can't find out why inc calls install-mh.

sbr/m_getdefs.c calls install-mh.  This happens if MH can't open your
$HOME/.mh_profile.

>I have looked at my environment variables, and they all seem to be
>correct.

How have you built MH?  install-mh can be called in other cases if
you have COMPAT defined.  Also, if you define environment variables
that MH uses (like MHFD) you could confuse it.

From what you said, it sounds to me like you have a .mh_profile, but
it's protected against you.
--
John Romine