From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 14 1:51:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D27637B6BC for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:51:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p58-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.123]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id RAA11565; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:50:35 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38F6DBE1.C6BDB148@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:50:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , FreeBSD Stable , Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: sendmail.mc References: <38F6265B.F1B436F0@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randy Bush wrote: > > is the assumption of the one-time build really that acceptable? > > to quote someone Steve in another email: > > All the m4 configuration stuff in the sendmail distribution is nicely > isolated under the sendmail-8.9.3/cf subdirectory. It doesn't depend on > other material from the rest of the source tree, except for the Build > script that could be replaced with a plain Makefile. > > Take a look at a Solaris 7 system sometime; they provide a version of > sendmail 8.9.3 with the base OS distribution and put the complete m4 > configuration package under /usr/lib/mail including the templates used > to build their main.cf and subsidiary.cf files. The total cost in space > is a little over 300K. MMmmmm... I looked into Solaris 7, and could not find a way to rebuild the whole system with the options and compilation flags I wanted. I guess they must do things a little bit different, eh? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message