Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:16:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ricardo AG Almeida <ricardag@ag.com.br> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makesendmail Message-ID: <19980115101635.09011@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801141448.MAA10860@ptero.ag.com.br>; from Ricardo AG Almeida on Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 12:49:36PM -0200 References: <199801082034.MAA21538@jupiter.neptune.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112212144.22079A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <199801141448.MAA10860@ptero.ag.com.br>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 12:49:36PM -0200, Ricardo AG Almeida wrote: > At 03:22 13/01/1998 , Doug White wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Doug Jolley wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know why the makesendmail file is missing from >>> the /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/src directory of the 2.2.5 >>> distribution from Walnut Creek CD-ROM? More importantly, >>> is someone trying to tell me something by this omission? >>> TIA for any input. >> >> I don't see a makesendmail file ever being there. If it ever was there, >> it'd be in the CVS repository, and it's not. > > I had found the same problem when I had to apply some patches in sendmail "by > hand". The READ_ME file at the /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/src directory states > that: > > ********************* > !! DO NOT USE MAKE !! to compile sendmail -- instead, use the > ********************* "makesendmail" script located in the src > directory. It will find an appropriate Makefile, and create an > appropriate obj.* subdirectory so that multiplatform support > works easily. > > I've found, however, that running "make" works ok. This message is directed to non-BSD users. The standard Makefile requires BSD make (which, of course, is what you have on FreeBSD), and won't work with System V or GNU makes. This message is probably overly cautious, however: there's a directory with all sorts of Makefiles which you could use if you were running a non-BSD machine. Greg
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