Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:20:57 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: "Steven E. Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@gshapiro.net>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sendmail Makefile Message-ID: <200009132020.NAA46530@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <05e601c01dbe$277ed870$8a1a050a@winstar.com> from "Steven E. Ames" at "Sep 13, 2000 03:06:49 pm"
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Steven E. Ames wrote:
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> > steve> Is SASL the only possible sendmail module that might be used?
> This way
> > steve> is pretty SASL specific...
> >
> > gshapiro> No, there are others but each has to be specific. Each has
> their
> > gshapiro> own -DXXX item to turn on the functionality and each may
> have
> > gshapiro> it's own include files or library file(s). However, when it
> > gshapiro> comes to the more esoteric modules, the user is probably
> better
> > gshapiro> off downloading the open source and building by hand.
> >
> > Or perhaps what you were thinking about would be make.conf variables:
> >
> > SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=
> > SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=
> > SENDMAIL_LDADD=
> >
> > Where .../sendmail/Makefile would have:
> >
> > CFLAGS+=${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.
Then you could have things like:
.ifdef(SENDMAIL_USE_SASL)
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL
...
.endif
If you wanted to have shortcuts for common extensions. You could stick
these in either sendmail's Makefile or make.conf. Probably in sendmail's
Makefile though.
> -Steve
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