Re: [Fetchmail-users] compiling fetchmail as 32 bit on a 64 bit machine

[Peter P. <ro...@ri...>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:06:35AM -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote:
> So, I continue to attempt to compile with tidbitd cleaned from internet searches even though I am sure someone on the list has a proper way to do this, aside from compiling on a 32bit machine.  Building even a VM for that is problematic at the moment.
> 
> Edited Makefile as shown:
> 
> CFLAGS = -m32 -g -O2 -I/usr/kerberos/include
> CPP = gcc -E
> CPPFLAGS = -m32
> LDFLAGS = -m32
> 
> make produces:
> 
> linux-jod1:~/fetchmail-6.4.1 # make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory '/root/fetchmail-6.4.1'
> Making all in .
> make[2]: Entering directory '/root/fetchmail-6.4.1'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/fetchmail-6.4.1'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory '/root/fetchmail-6.4.1/po'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/fetchmail-6.4.1/po'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/fetchmail-6.4.1'
> 
> This, one presumes, is "ungood".

This basically means that 'make' did not consider that it had anything
to do, since all the object and executable files were newer than all the
source files. If you only change the Makefile, then you should run
'make clean' or even, if the program supports it, 'make distclean' to
make sure that the next 'make' command will rebuild everything.

G'luck,
Peter

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