[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.45 compile errors ??

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:47:45PM +1000, Bill Maidment wrote:
> Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
> >What I'm discovering about Perl under FC2 x86_64 is that things seem
> >to be split between /usr/lib and /usr/lib64.
> >[...]
> >Using --disable-check-perl-modules at least fixed the warning,
> 
> [...]
> but it still crashes, because the wrong modules are accessed at run time.
> 
> The only way is to go searching for the old modules and delete them.

I've now confirmed that this patch allows MD 2.45 to work fine on FC2
x86_64:

=== cut here ===
--- /usr/local/src/mimedefang-2.45/mimedefang.pl	2004-10-23 11:19:22.000000000 -0500
+++ mimedefang.pl	2004-10-26 10:20:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 # Move site library directory ahead of default library directory in @INC.
 # That's so we can sanely package our own version of MIME::Base64 that
 # won't conflict with the built-in one on RPM-based platforms.
+use lib '/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3';
 use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3';
 
 # MIME-Tools requires this?
=== cut here ===

I have some FC2 x86_64 RPMs (such as perl-MIME-Base64-3.05, which doesn't
conflict with Fedora's, so you don't have to "clean out old modules")
and other notes on my work-in-progress here:

	http://kepler.its.bethel.edu/~bjn/spamassassin/

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