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[Brian Eliassen <address@concealed>]

Hello David,

I'm still having issues getting a mailing list to work but I'll save  
that for the next message.  I went ahead and installed the latest  
version.  Again, here is my environment:

Environment: Solaris 10, gcc 3.4.6, GNU make 3.82, perl v5.14.2, MySQL  
5.6.22, Apache httpd 2.4.10, sendmail 8.14.5 - everything built from  
source

I installed the file with the following commands:

     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sympa --with-initdir=/etc/ 
init.d/ --without-smrshdir
     make
     Stop sympa: /etc/init.d/sympa stop
     make install
     /usr/local/sympa/bin/sympa_wizard.pl --check
     /usr/local/sympa/bin/sympa.pl --upgrade
     Start sympa: /etc/init.d/sympa start

--prefix=/usr/local/sympa is where I place most of my software unless  
a prebuilt package installs in /opt in which case I often make a link  
to the directory from within /usr/local.  For example, MySQL (built  
from source as I needed the 32-bit libraries) is in /opt/mysql/mysql  
so I have a /usr/local/mysql link pointing into there.
--with-initdir=/etc/init.d/ is necessary for Solaris as that is where  
all of the SK start/stop scripts reside.
--without-smrshdir because I don't have it so I don't need it.

The first problem was running the configure command.  The following  
output snippet shows the error:

<snip>
checking for msgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/lib/gmsgfmt
ERROR: Cannot open file --version.
<snip>

I tracked it down to:

  case `$GMSGFMT --version | sed 1q | sed -e 's,^[^0-9]*,,'` in
    '' | 0.[0-9] | 0.[0-9].* | 0.1[0-4] | 0.1[0-4].*) GMSGFMT_015=: ;;
    *) GMSGFMT_015=$GMSGFMT ;;
  esac

Here is some debugging on my part:

/export/home/brian/software/sympa-6.2b.3> ll /usr/lib/gmsgfmt
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin        35172 Jan 22  2005 /usr/lib/gmsgfmt
/export/home/brian/software/sympa-6.2b.3> file /usr/lib/gmsgfmt
/usr/lib/gmsgfmt:       ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1,  
dynamically linked, stripped
/export/home/brian/software/sympa-6.2b.3> /usr/lib/gmsgfmt --version
ERROR: Cannot open file --version.

The only other problem is something that I've seen before but I failed  
to mention it as it didn't stop anything from building and that is  
what I was concentrating on.

When I run "/usr/local/sympa/bin/sympa_wizard.pl --check" on my  
system, I receive a lot of these warnings:
Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"LANG"} in pattern match (m//) at /usr/ 
local/sympa/bin/sympa_wizard.pl line 484, <STDIN> line 1.

This is happening on:
    $ENV{'LANG'} = 'C' if ($ENV{'LANG'} =~ /UTF\-8/);

I believe if you change it to the following, it will resolve the  
problem:
    $ENV{'LANG'} = 'C' if (defined($ENV{'LANG'}) && ($ENV{'LANG'} =~ / 
UTF\-8/));

Everything else went smoothly.

Brian