4) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the mmh `etc' directory).
This file contains the default profile entries for the mmh commands
- mhlist/mhstore/mhshow. The syntax of this file is described in section
+ mhlist/mhstore/show. The syntax of this file is described in section
9.4 of the book "MH & xmh: Email for Users and Programmers", 3rd edition,
by Jerry Peek, on the Internet at
- <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/confmhn.htm>.
+ <http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/confmhn.html>.
5) Add the bindir to your PATH variable.
different compiler, or add unusual options for compiling or linking that
the "configure" script does not know about, by either editing the user
configuration section of the top level Makefile (after running configure)
-or giving "configure" initial values for these variables by setting them
-in the environment. Using a Bourne-compatible shell (such as sh,ksh,zsh),
+or giving "configure" initial values for these in its command line or in
+its environment. For example:
-you can do that on the command line like this:
- CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure
+ ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
Or on systems that have the "env" program, you can do it like this:
env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure
-If you want to add to, not replace, compile flags, you can use
-OURDEFS with env or like this:
- OURDEFS='-Wextra -Wno-sign-compare' ./configure
+If you want to add to, not replace, compile flags, you can use OURDEFS:
+ ./configure OURDEFS='-Wextra -Wno-sign-compare'
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Building mmh on additional architectures
--enable-debug
Enable debugging support.
---enable-mhe (DEFAULT)
- Add support for the Emacs front-end `mhe'.
-
--with-locking=LOCKTYPE (DEFAULT is dot)
- Specify the locking mechanism when attempting to "inc" or
- "msgchk" a local mail spool. Valid options are "dot",
- "fcntl", "flock", and "lockf". Of the four, dot-locking
- requires no special kernel or filesystem support, and simply
- creates a file called "FILE.lock" to indicate that "FILE" is
- locked.
+ Specify the locking mechanism when attempting to "inc"
+ a local mail spool. Valid options are "dot", "fcntl", "flock",
+ and "lockf". Of the four, dot-locking requires no special kernel
+ or filesystem support, and simply creates a file called
+ "FILE.lock" to indicate that "FILE" is locked.
In order to be effective, you should contact the site
administrator to find out what locking mechanisms other