trying to install slrn +ssl

[LuKreme]

# port install slrn-devel +ssl
[...]
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_news_slrn-devel/work/slrn-0.9.9pre-69/src/snprintf.c:106: error: incompatible types in assignment
make[1]: *** [/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_news_slrn-devel/work/slrn-0.9.9pre-69/src/objs/snprintf.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [all] Error 2
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_news_slrn-devel/work/slrn-0.9.9pre-69" && /usr/bin/make -j4 all " returned error 2
DEBUG: Backtrace: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_news_slrn-devel/work/slrn-0.9.9pre-69" && /usr/bin/make -j4 all " returned error 2
    while executing
"command_exec build"
    (procedure "portbuild::build_main" line 9)
    invoked from within
"$procedure $targetname"
Warning: the following items did not execute (for slrn-devel): org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I can build slrn +ssl, but that release is quite ancient (it's from 2004) as the current release is 0.9.9p1 (newer than the pre that ports is downloading which is from the summer of 2008, iirc).

0.9.9 came out in aug 2008 and 0.9.9p1 in Oct 2008.

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