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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: version.c not updated correctly
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Date: 23 Aug 88 19:30:54 GMT
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I just tried installing MH 6.6, and ran into a problem that I had also
noticed with version 6.5.  uip/Makefile has the lines:

all:		version.o $(CMDS) $(MISC)
		@version.sh; $(CC) -O -c version.c

This causes the following to happen:

1. version.c is compiled into version.o.
2. All the utilities are compiled and linked.
3. version.sh is run to generate a new version.c, which is
   then compiled.

As a consequence, the hostname in version.o is incorrect the first
time the utilities are made.  After that, everything is OK.

						Joe

P.S. I first tried reporting this to bug-mh@ics.uci.edu, but got back
a message from the mailer saying:

Date:     Tue, 23 Aug 88 0:58:01 PDT
From: ics UCI-ICS Mail System (MMDF-IIb) <mmdf@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Sender: Postmaster <mmdf@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Subject:  Failed mail  (msg.aa15600)

    Your message could not be delivered to
'mh-bugs@BBOARDS.ICS.UCI.EDU (host: bboards.ics.uci.edu) (queue: bboards)' for the following
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Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University