hypermail port problem - SOLVED!!!

[jerome schatten]

Porters... I report SUCCESS (with a lot of help from y'all)

As soon as I moved the new hypermail binary to the src directory of the 
hypermail tree and executed as I used to do on the Linux system, it 
worked -- no problems at all.  I brought the entire hypermail tree over 
to the mac from the linux machine, with all the config and mail files, 
and it played beautifully.  It was Brian's comments about hypermail not 
having anything to chew on which triggered the idea of putting it back 
in the src directory of the hypermail tree.

I want to thank everyone who took the time to be patient with a 77 year 
old fool, who is trying to learn a few new tricks. I did learn to use 
MacPorts which was an adventure in itself.

The ticket on this can be removed with my apologies. MacPorts works best 
when you know what your doing <g>.
Thanks again,
jerome

On 2015-01-23 11:14 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:00 PM, jerome schatten <romers at shaw.ca 
> <mailto:romers at shaw.ca>> wrote:
>
>     I think it's somewhat different than 'waiting for a mailbox file'.
>     I'm very new to MacPorts, and had a bit of trouble figuring out
>     what I was doing. But it's starting to sink in.
>
>
> Having dug up some docs, it does look like to work as a filter it 
> needs the -i parameter so that's not it.
>
>     It occurs to me now that the binary that was generated needs to be
>     returned to its original environment surrounded by all the support
>     files that it needs to run.  I did not do that; I just executed
>     the binary, period, and so it sat -- what else could it do?
>
>
> I would expect an error message in that case, not sitting there 
> looking dumb.
>
>     Are you the same Brandon Allerby that did the original early work
>     on Jnos?
>
>
> Mmm, I'd call that a slight misstatement (now, if you mean the Linux 
> port thereof...), but yes. Been a few years though. >.>
>
> -- 
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