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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sendmail Makefile 
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:06:49 -0500
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> steve> Is SASL the only possible sendmail module that might be used?
This way
> steve> is pretty SASL specific...
>
> gshapiro> No, there are others but each has to be specific.  Each has
their
> gshapiro> own -DXXX item to turn on the functionality and each may
have
> gshapiro> it's own include files or library file(s).  However, when it
> gshapiro> comes to the more esoteric modules, the user is probably
better
> gshapiro> off downloading the open source and building by hand.
>
> Or perhaps what you were thinking about would be make.conf variables:
>
> SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=
> SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=
> SENDMAIL_LDADD=
>
> Where .../sendmail/Makefile would have:
>
> CFLAGS+=${SENDMAIL_CFLAGS}
> LDFLAGS+=${SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS}
> LDADD+=${SENDMAIL_LDADD}
>
> Then users would:
>
> SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL
> SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
> SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl

Yep. That's more along the lines of my thinking. Nor as intuitive from a
user persepective maybe, but certainly more flexible.

-Steve



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