Re: pkgsrc/mail/sendmail anomalies

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On May 12, 12:04pm, Richard PALO wrote:
} Le 20/12/12 15:21, Greg Troxel a écrit :
} >
} > I don't think this can be fixed upstream because
} >    a) I suspect they don't want to encode preferences for 20 operating
} >    systems.

     In a way, they do, as they provide sample mc files for a wide
variety of operating systems and versions.

} >    b) VARBASE can change

     True.  For, personal preferences, as opposed to OS defaults, some
kind of substitution mechanism would be needed.

} > See mailwrapper(1).
} > I don't think it's confused, but it may not be right.
} 
} for a) I was thinking more along the lines to get compile time support 
} for the defaults using devtool/site.config.m4 values.. taking care of b) 
} at the same time (which is, as far as I know, a build time variable)

     Yes, VARBASE is a build time variable.  But, all the values you
mentioned before, are run time changable.

} concerning mailwrapper, at first sounded ok, but doesn't build on illumos:
} 
} ===> Building for mailwrapper-19990412nb4
} gcc -O -I/opt/pkg/include -I/usr/include  -Werror  -DHAVE_NBCOMPAT_H=1 
} -I/tmp/pkgsrc/mail/mailwrapper/work/libnbcompat -I/opt/pkg/include 
} -I/usr/include -I. -Wall -c fparseln.c
} In file included from fparseln.c:40:0:
} ./util.h:40:24: fatal error: sys/ttycom.h: No such file or directory
} compilation terminated.
} *** Error code 1
} 
} After scratching my head a bit, it seems prone to error installing in 
} ${PREFIX}/... and have files in ${VARBASE} and yet depend upon the 
} default system's binaries to figure it out... (I notice that there is no 
} run-time dependency on mailwrapper)... perhaps better in this case to 
} correct this.

     Looks like mailwrapper requires some portability fixes.  It also
will need to grow a builtin.mk, as mailwrapper is supplied with
NetBSD.  We are in a pkgsrc freeze right now, but I will update
sendmail's MESSAGE file to advise the addition of a symlink on systems
that don't have mailwrapper.  I don't want to make extensive changes to
mailwrapper while in the freeze.

}-- End of excerpt from Richard PALO