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I'm wondering if anyone out there has managed to get NN 6.5.x (where x

Quote:>= 3) to compile and run successully under Linux.  If so, it would be

a great relief since this is causing me trouble.  If not, I guess I'll
have to work harder :-)

What I'm after is an NN that doesn't require a separate database but
can take advantage of NNTP's NOV instead.

Thanks!

Roy Bixler

Get newspak-2.4.tar.gz from sunsite or its mirrors. Unpack it and follow the
nn directory. In it you will find a s-linux.h header file and a config.h
file to be used with nn to compile.  

What I did was to use the config.h.dist file from the nn source tree and
added the #defines for NOV and NNTP, changed the include for s- to s-linux.h
and I compiled away.

Quote:>What I'm after is an NN that doesn't require a separate database but
>can take advantage of NNTP's NOV instead.

Take a look at the X-Newsreader line above. :) And yes I do not have to have
the nn database laying around in my box to use nn.  

Happy as a clam

jzc

The answer apparently is to get newspak from sunsite or mirrors:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/News/newspak-2.4.tar.gz

edit config.h starting with the one provided in the 'newspak' and be
sure to modify the 'nntp_get_overview()' prototype in globals.h to:

struct novgroup *nntp_get_overview      __APROTO((group_header *gh,
                                                 article_number first,
                                                 article_number last));

Then, it compiles and installs straight away.

Thanks goes to Stephen Foy for his response ...

Roy Bixler