Re: How to use on OpenBSD? (has Perl-5.8.8 in OBSD base)

["The masked-coder known as Randux" <randux%Safe-mail.net@localhost>]

Thanks Steve. Sorry for top posting, I'm trying to answer a lot of mails 
quickly and I am using this poor webmail interface instead of claws ;)

I'm abandoning pkgsrc on OpenBSD for now. Claws-mail works great for me on 
NetBSD, but I really had to do some major arm-twisting to get it built properly 
on NetBSD because I wanted many of the plugins which are Claws defaults, but 
they're not NetBSD defaults (gpg, gpginline, gpgmime, gpgme). It may well be 
that I don't know how to set the right options so I finally just edited the 
three makefiles. It was quite frustrating. I had built it from source on Linux 
and I did everything from the configure and it built and worked as I wanted the 
first go. I had a few tries on NetBSD before I realized why no plugins got 
built. It's a bit confusing because the defaults on pkgsrc version aren't the 
same as they are on the Claws website which lists the plugins that come with 
the product. If you think about it makes sense because maybe you don't want 
gnupg as a pkgsrc dependency for Claws, but it's easy to get a bit lost in the 
process of building it, especially if you've built it on other systems.

Since as far as I know the build doesn't require dependencies for plugins in 
order to built the plugins themselves (in other words I should be able to build 
all of Claws mail including gpg support even if I've not installed gnupg on the 
system) may I request that all of the default plugins (that is, plugins that 
Claws-mail lists as "standard plugins") be built with claws as a default?

Cheers,
Rand

-------- Original Message --------
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
To: "The masked-coder known as Randux" <randux%Safe-mail.net@localhost>
Cc: pkgsrc-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: How to use on OpenBSD? (has Perl-5.8.8 in OBSD base)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:59:40 -0400

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:41:48 +0200
> "The masked-coder known as Randux" <randux%Safe-mail.net@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Whilst pkgsrc works quite well for me on NetBSD (don't really recall
> > any major problems at all) it doesn't seem to be working very well on
> > OpenBSD 4.0. I've run into three broken packages already tonight, one
> > I was able to run down on the list archives, it's been repeatedly
> > broken/fixed/broken/fixed since 2004 (gpgme) and now firefox2 and
> > sylpheed-claws (my main reasons for using pkgsrc on OpenBSD) have
> > just crashed.
>
> I'll be committing a new package for claws-mail within the next few
> days.
>
>
>
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb