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David M. Barley

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Sep 14, 1994, 3:54:21 PM9/14/94
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I am having some problems getting Sendmail to compile under Linux. I
am using Slakware 2.0, with kernel version 1.1.47...If you can give me any
help, I would appreciate it.

My problem is that it won't compile. The very last step, where is does
comethng with the .o files, it says it can't find a file or directory. I am
really lost....

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Karl London

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Sep 15, 1994, 3:06:50 PM9/15/94
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David M. Barley (dmba...@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: I am having some problems getting Sendmail to compile under Linux. I

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Its due to the makefile change it to say -ldbm rather than -lndbm

Karl

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Al Longyear

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Sep 23, 1994, 10:18:53 AM9/23/94
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ka...@borg.demon.co.uk (Karl London) writes:

>David M. Barley (dmba...@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote:
>: I am having some problems getting Sendmail to compile under Linux. I
>: am using Slakware 2.0, with kernel version 1.1.47...If you can give me any
>: help, I would appreciate it.

>: My problem is that it won't compile. The very last step, where is does
>: comethng with the .o files, it says it can't find a file or directory. I am
>: really lost....

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>Its due to the makefile change it to say -ldbm rather than -lndbm

While this will work, it is not optimal.

The 'dbm' library is the GNU version of the database package. This is
not as good as the Berkeley package.

You will find the Berkeley package on sunsite.unc.edu as 'dbm*' in the
libraries directory.

It will compile 'right out of the box'. Use this library rather than
the GNU (old) library if you want the full functionality of the alias
database.

Then after you get it to compile, you will have trouble with the
default mailer. Make sure that you specify the OSTYPE(linux) in your
local.mc file to get the mail.local mailer rather than 'mail'. Or use
one of the other excellent alternatives such as 'deliver' or
'procmail'. Just don't let Mlocal run 'mail' with the 'mail' program from
slackware. If you want the proper version of mail, the one which works with
sendmail, then get it from ftp.Berkeley.edu as well.

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