Subj : Re: New MM user w/o Linux mm
To   : James Bradley
From : William McBrine
Date : Fri Feb 20 2004 02:19 am

-=> James Bradley wrote to Monica Neufeld <=-

 MN> mm-linux-i386elf.gz (188k) - Linux/i386 ELF, now statically linked.
 MN> Previously I provided a binary that was dependent on libc5, but this
 MN> one isn't. Compiled on a 486 running kernel 2.0.36, and tested on an
 MN> Athlon running 2.5.7.

 JB> This sounds right but??? William... I'm on Mandrake 6.0 (for the time).

Yes. It should work on any x86 Linux system since ELF was adopted (a long
time now). However, I strongly recommend that you download the source and
compile it yourself. If and only if that doesn't work satisfactorily, then
try the precompiled binary.

The source code archive is "mmail-0.46.tar.gz". (Also available in .zip 
form.)

 MN> mm-qnx-i386.gz (122k) - QNX/i386, compiled on RTP 6.0.

 JB> Yes! (I think.)

Not unless you're (also) using QNX. Pretty rare, but maybe you are? QNX is
a different operating system.

 MN> mm-linux-alpha.gz (117k) - Linux/Alpha, compiled on Debian 3.0.

 JB> I don't think the Alpha processor resides here. <-;

No; you'd know if you had one. :-)

 JB> Here I thought all versions of Linux/Unix would use the same port.

I'm not sure what you mean here. There's one source code tree, and no
ifdefs between Unices, IIRC. But of course the compiled code is different. 

Most Linux users would use the i386 binary, aka x86. But Linux also runs on
all kinds of non-Intel-compatible processors.

.... "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so."
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