If a pager isn't specified with configure --with-pager, look in order

for more, less, and most.  Fall back to cat, to avoid catastrophic
failure of mhshow, et al., if pagerpath is set to "no".

Updated Cygwin section of MACHINES.

diff --git a/MACHINES b/MACHINES
index 853140d..ab0d2cb 100644 (file)
--- a/MACHINES
+++ b/MACHINES
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ nmh is known to compile on the following platforms (save the
 exceptions noted below), using an ANSI C compiler, such as gcc.
 
 AIX 4.1.5.0.01
-Cygwin, setup version 2.763 (though it does not run correctly, see below)
+Cygwin (setup version 2.763, other versions may be fine)
 FreeBSD
 IRIX 6.5
 Linux 2.2 to current (glibc 2.1 to current)
@@ -45,9 +45,13 @@ Cygwin:
 Be sure to install Cygwin package libncurses-devel, in the Devel or
 Libs category.  And libncurses10 or later in the Lib category.
 
-Which nmh builds on Cygwin, not all of its programs operate.  If
-you're willing to help fix them, please contact the nmh maintainters
-at nmh-workers@nongnu.org.
+You may notice a few (three) compile warnings:  they can be ignored.
+
+If send, post, and whom fail, the cause might be a \ in your username.
+To avoid this, either add a Signature profile entry (see the
+mh-profile(5) man page) or set/export your SIGNATURE environment
+variable.  The value can be just the short form of your username, such
+as that displayed by "id -nu".
 
 --------------------------------------
 HPUX:

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 480c8be..d7268ab 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([pager],
 
 AS_IF([test -n "$with_pager"], [pagerpath="$with_pager"])
 
+dnl If a pager is not explicitly specified, then look for one.
+dnl Fall back to `cat', to avoid catastrophic failure of
+dnl `mhshow', et al., if pagerpath is set to `no'.
+if test -z "$pagerpath"; then
+  pathtmp=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin
+  AC_PATH_PROGS([pagerpath], [more less most cat], [no], [$pathtmp])
+fi
+AC_SUBST(pagerpath)dnl
+
 dnl What should be the default mail server(s)?
 AC_ARG_WITH(smtpservers,
   AS_HELP_STRING([--with-smtpservers='SMTPSERVER1@<:@ SMTPSERVER2...@:>@'],
@@ -286,17 +295,6 @@ if test "$lspath" != "no"; then
   fi])
 fi
 
-dnl Look for `more'
-pathtmp=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin
-AC_PATH_PROG([morepath], [more], [no], [$pathtmp])
-
-dnl If pager is not specified yet,
-dnl then use `more' as the default.
-if test -z "$pagerpath"; then
-  pagerpath="$morepath"
-fi
-AC_SUBST(pagerpath)dnl
-
 dnl Look for `sendmail'
 pathtmp=/usr/lib:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/bin:/bin
 AC_PATH_PROG([sendmailpath], [sendmail], [/usr/sbin/sendmail], [$pathtmp])