[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang build error

[Tony Nugent]

On Thu Aug 29 2002 at 07:36, David T Hollis wrote:

> I've been using the Rawhide 8.12.5 RPMS for some time now and there are no
> issues.  I would recommend rebuilding it from the SRPM to ensure that it
> is build against your libraries, not new ones they are moving to with the
> next RedHat release.  If you are running 7.3, there shouldn't be any other
> dependencies to worry about.  If you are running a pretty old release, it
> may be a lot of effort.

I mentioned my own experiences with the 8.12.5 rpm from rawhide in a
post to this list only recently...  it has been working perfectly
here (rh73) after a src.rpm rebuild that took very little effort.
I have no reason to suspect that the i386.rpm's in rawhide won't
work as-is on a rh7.3 box.

For earlier distros (eg, rh62), you won't be able to avoid the need
to regenerate the binary files from the .src.rpm after doing some
(relatively minor) tweaking to the sendmail.spec file.  It is
certainly doable... I did it successfully earlier this year for a
sendmail 8.12.3 package taken out of rawhide and rebuilt for rh62.

> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Kris Deugau wrote:
> 
> > "David F. Skoll" wrote:
> > > MIMEDefang no longer supports Sendmail 8.11.  Sorry about that; you must
> > > upgrade to 8.12.x.
> >
> > Ah, OK.  I had seen the notice on the website about this, but wasn't
> > sure what form that would take.
> >
> > >  (You can force it to build by linking against
> > > libsmutil.a, but I don't support that out-of-the-box any longer.)
> >
> > *shrug*  I'm not complaining;  I knew this was coming but had no idea
> > what sort of warnings, error messages, missing build dependencies, or
> > anything else might show up.
> >
> > Until I can either patch the MIMEDefang build to work with 8.11, or dig
> > up an "official" RedHat-released sendmail-8.12.x, I'll continue with
> > 2.15.  (Much as I would like to simply go ahead and use the Rawhide
> > package, I would prefer not to use "development" software on a
> > production server.)
> >
> > So far, I haven't seen any signs of missing or mangled email, but I'm
> > not running a *really* high-volume server.
> >
> > I'd try to build against the Rawhide sendmail-8.12.5 release, but I
> > don't have a spare box to do so at the moment.  :(

You might need to find one :)

> > -kgd

Good luck.

Cheers
Tony