Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax+ on FreeBSD 7

[Daren Russell <darenr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:
> Daren Russell wrote:
>> It seems to generally be working, but I noticed that in
>> "common-functions" it makes use of the 'wc' command with the option
>> '-L'.  The potential problem is this argument does not seem to be
>> supported by the version of 'wc' in FreeBSD 7.  I am unsure if this is
>> causing any real problems with notifications - as we now don't get email
>> notifications when a fax comes in.
>
> You can probably substitute all of the -L for an -m.
>
> The difference between -m and -L is that -L does not count the
> end-of-line character(s) (line feed, and possibly carriage-return). 
> In practice this should not be noticeable (especially for english
> -speaking users) since it will be consistent throughout all items on
> the list.
>
> I seem to recall changing it to -L at a time when doing work for
> internationalization.  I'm not sure if -m handles wide characters or
> not.  I'm certain that -L does.  However, in your case this will not
> be an issue.
>
> Note, however, that common-functions will get overwritten on
> reinstallations and upgrades.  So you'll want to make note of your
> changes and apply them after future upgrades.  If you open up a bug
> report on the Sourceforge website on this matter then I'll make
> configure test for wc -L support before using it over wc -m.  In that
> bug report I would appreciate knowing how things look (i.e. faxrcvd
> notification messages) after making the changes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee.
Thanks for replying Lee.

It's sorted now anyway, I found that FreeBSD had a port of the Gnu
commands including wc, so I installed them and had the system use the
Gnu version of wc.

Regards
Daren


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