I'm not an nmh contributor, but I'm currently working on installing nmh-1.7 on one of my servers.
I've run into a few issues, most of which are trivial (and which I'll describe below for the sake of completeness), but the one which may not be trivial is this: # make check [...passed tests and benign failures elided...] *** /big/local/pkg/nmh/nmh-1.7/test/testdir/Mail/inbox/31 2017-11-25 21:06:40.117262850 -0500 --- /big/local/pkg/nmh/nmh-1.7/test/testdir/test-mhfixmsg2494.actual 2017-11-25 21:06:40.125262997 -0500 *************** *** 1,15 **** - To: recipi...@example.com - From: sen...@example.com - Subject: mhfixmsg pass through on parse error - MIME-Version: 1.0 - Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa0" - - ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0 - Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1 - Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test1.txt" - Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable - - This is the= - text/plain part. - - ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa0-- --- 0 ---- ./test/mhfixmsg/test-mhfixmsg: test failed, outputs are in /big/local/pkg/nmh/nmh-1.7/test/testdir/Mail/inbox/31 and /big/local/pkg/nmh/nmh-1.7/test/testdir/test-mhfixmsg2494.actual. first named test failure: pass through message with relative folder path with parse error FAIL: test/mhfixmsg/test-mhfixmsg Is this something I can safely ignore? The other issues I mentioned are: - It would be really nice if configure and Makefile.in didn't force a trailing /nmh on the pathnames I supply for libexecdir and sysconfdir. This is trivial because it was easy enough to edit both files myself to make the change I wanted, but it would be much nicer if there were a way to do that by supplying an option to configure. - I've been using mh for decades (literally!), so I no longer remember why I originally chose to configure using --with-hash-backup. Nevertheless I did so, and ever since I've been continuing to do so for sake of consistency. This causes three other tests to fail, because they hardcode backup filenames using a comma: In this case I know these failures are benign, but in any case I proved that to myself by reconfiguring without --with-hash-backup and running make check again; in that situation, mhfixmsg/test-mhfixmsg is the only test that failed, but it did still fail. I'm not subscribed to this list, so I'd appreciate replies to my personal address of steven.winik...@concordia.ca Thanks, - Steven -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Steven Winikoff | "The reasonable man adapts himself to the Concordia University | world; the unreasonable one persists in Montreal, QC, Canada | trying to adapt the world to himself. steven.winik...@concordia.ca | Therefore all progress depends on the | unreasonable man." | - George Bernard Shaw -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers