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From: johnm@auscso.UUCP (John B. Meaders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: smail2.5
Message-ID: <398@auscso.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 01:17:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: auscso.398
Posted: Tue Sep 29 01:17:08 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 05:42:37 EDT
Reply-To: johnm@auscso.UUCP (John B. Meaders, Jr.)
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Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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Keywords: smail Xenix trouble
Summary: Running under 8086 Xenix V
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:4313 comp.unix.wizards:4568 comp.unix.xenix:856

I had trouble getting smail2.5 (recent release) to run on my Compaq
Deskpro.  The first time I ran it I got a panic and had to power down.
I remade the package and ran again and was rewarded with a core dump.
I looked at the dump and saw a lot of references to malloc.  In the
Makefile there is a comment that System V.2 sites can use -lmalloc
for a faster malloc.  I naturally had been using that library.  After
seeing the references to malloc in the core dump, I commented out
the LIBS statement in the Makefile.  I was rewarded with a successful
running of smail2.5.  The deliver.c and alias.c modules complain about
different levels of indirection at compile time (only warning 47), but
this doesn't seem to hinder operation of the package.  I had problems
with smail2.3 which could probably be solved by the same method.
I used CFLAGS = -O -s.
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