[sylpheed:23645] Re: Need metamail (with security fix, if poss.) for Red Hat 9.0

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:49:56 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y <at> kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 04:50:19 -0600
> Emily Jackson <m5computing <at> earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Any suggestions as to where to get a proper metamail for Red Hat 9.0
> > > would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Metamail is also missing on Mac OS X. I asked the Fink people about
> > adding it once (explaining why Fink's Sylpheed package needed it), and
> > the reply was rather negative, ending with "sleepyhead should consider
> > finding a better way of doing things." :-\
> 
> I've also recognized the problem, so I'll remove the dependency to
> metamail and replace it by another implementation in the future version.

This 2.7 metamail is really old.
It needs some work to build on Red Hat 9.0
When you #define LINUX in config.h it turns on SYSV:

    #ifdef LINUX
    #define SYSV /* Linux is SysV */
    #endif

Then you get syntax errors in signal.h and string.h 
caused by these macros that define killpg and bcopy: