[tech] Dodgy mutt operation on mermaid

[Ian McKellar]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 04:15:28PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> > On Feb 21, Alastair Irvine scrawled :
> 
> > mutt version 1.0.1i, when run on mermaid, seems to always open my mail
> > spool file in read-only mode.  This is not the case on mussel.  Any ideas?
> > 
> this is because the default debian mutt is compiled with:
> make --enable-fcntl --disable-flock
> it should be the other way around to account for NFS mail spools.
> ie: make --disable-fcntl --enable-flock
> 
> if someone could od this?

FYI:
apt-get source mutt
cd mutt-1.1.4/
vi debian/rules
(make above changes to configure line)
(fix bug in debian/rules kerberos/ssl detection)
debuild
(someone reboots machine in middle of compile without much notice)

Anyway, what was _meant_ to happen was debuild was meant to create a new
Debian package of mutt. I was compiling in /tmp, so the patches I made to
debian/rules have been lost.

Any enterprising wheel members interested in learning the debian build 
process?

Ian