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|    Robert Wolfe to Jame Clay    |
|    Re: mbse 0.95.10    |
|    30 Mar 11 21:33:26    |
      Jame Clay wrote to Robert Wolfe:              JC> The 95.6 version does have some ubuntu fixes (for 9.10) but not for the       JC> issue I was aware of. I checked the archive I have for 95.10 but that       JC> also does not have the fix for it. I did do a build of 95.6 on       JC> ubuntu, but I don't recall which version of Ubuntu it was at when I did       JC> that, and that install (on a vserver) has been upgraded since though only       JC> up to v10.4. It is a build time issue, though, and it does seem to run       JC> there...       JC>        JC> The possibly specific thing I found for ubuntu is an issue with the       JC> open call in mbfido/flock.c; it's at line 43 of that version of the file.       JC> Ubuntu changed their defaults for compileing and in the type of open call       JC> being used there, requires three arguments rather than the two that's       JC> there. (It appears to be the same in 95.6 & 95.10 as well; i.e., not       JC> changed from 92.0 ...)       JC>        JC> I've added a fix for that to 0.92.0 as a patch in the Debian package;        JC> currently using dpatch but I plan to change to using quilt. How I dealt       JC> with it is currently visible in debian/patches/10_fix-flock-error.dpatch       JC> in the debian branch at http://git.rocasa.org/gitweb.cgi/mbsedeb.git.              I am actually playing with the 95.12d version under Wheezy now, and still       getting the crashing when saving messages in the FSE (so far, only to echomail       areas -- we'll see if this one makes it out before crashing causes me to have       to reboot the BBS server). Otherwise, it looks like the word wrapping in the       FSE seems to have been improved :)                       Greetings, Robert Wolfe              --- MBSE BBS v0.95.12d2 (GNU/Linux-i386)        * Origin: Anothe Good Point About Linux! (1:261/20.716)    |
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