This is the GNU mailutils package. This document describes the actions needed to build the pre-release or Git version of the package. See end of file for copying conditions. * Introduction This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. If you are taking source from Git, you will need to have several special tools to help contribute. See the file README-hacking for more information, See chapter `Building' for the detailed instructions on how to build the package. Please, note that the accompanying documentation may be inaccurate or incomplete. The Git logs are the authoritative documentation of all recent changes. Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org> * Checking Out the Sources The following instructions apply if you wish to obtain sources from the Git repository: To clone the source tree from the repository, issue the following command: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mailutils.git This will give you read-only access. If you think you need write access, contact the mailing list. * Building Usual procedures apply: ./configure make make install See INSTALL and README for the detailed instructions. * Debugging To enable additional debugging information, configure the package with --enable-debug option. Unless you compile mailutils statically, you will need to run following command to debug any utility: libtool --mode execute gdb UTILITY-NAME Sometimes it is impossible or inconvenient to start a utility from the debugger. In this case, use --HANG option, which is supported by any of the mailutils programs. The option instructs the program to sleep for a given number of seconds (3600 by default) right after startup. For example, to debug `mimeview' utility, run mimeview --HANG [OTHER-OPTIONS] Then switch to another terminal, get the PID of the ivoked utility and attach to it using gdb: gdb mimeview PID Once in gdb, issue the following command set _argp_hang=0 Now set your breakpoints and proceed as usual. * Copyright information: Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2008, 2010-2012, 2014-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" version-control: never End: