[Alpine-info] Re: Solaris problems continue with Alpine 2.00

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Stephen Chadfield wrote:


> Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:

>

>> See message below from Steve Christensen.  Please include him in the cc 

>> list on this thread and forward his replies to the list when 

>> appropriate. He doesn't want to join the list and his messages are 

>> therefore rejected.

>

> I have just built alpine 2.00 on Solaris 2.8 using:

>

>  --disable-debug --without-pthread

>

> and find that I can now view attachments without hanging alpine.



Thanks very much, Stephen.  I sent your message to Steve Christensen and 
he compiled Alpine 2.00 on Solaris 8 with your options and put the package 
on www.sunfreeware.com.  I downloaded it from there and have been using it 
for a few minutes.  It is definitely greatly improved -- I can follow 
links in Lynx and view Word attachments in antiword.  I can shell out 
repeatedly without failure.  So that's most of the problem solved.  It did 
crash completely out of nowhere for no apparent reason while I was looking 
at a folder index.  No clue on that, but I'll be looking out for more 
crashes.

Steve Christensen asked if this problem is only on Solaris 8.  Does he 
need to use the "--disable-debug --without-pthread" options on other 
Solaris versions -- 9 and up?  I have no idea so I thought I'd ask if you, 
Stephen, or anyone else here, have any thoughts on this.

Mike