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From: steve@jack.sns.com (J. Steven Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: smail 3.1 and shared libraries
Message-ID: <1991May8.232518.8934@jack.sns.com>
Date: 8 May 91 23:25:18 GMT
References: <34162@ditka.Chicago.COM>
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In article <34162@ditka.Chicago.COM> kls@ditka.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes:
>I just built and installed smail 3.1.18 on ditka.  Installed very
>easily and works like a champ -- I'm impressed!!!  (Many thanks to
>the authors for doing such a nice job.)
>
If I am not mistaken 3.1.20 does allow for compilation with shared libraries
on the 3b1. I have not moved it there yet for recompilation but noticed
it as I was setting it up for the other machines I administer.

>(Another possibility is recompiling smail 3.1 with gcc.  Has this
>been done on a UNIX PC, and what kind of speed improvement might I
>expect?)
>
I did this but found little difference. I used gcc 1.39.


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