Re: Getting an MTA installed

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Joel Roth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm used to using exim4 on Debian. Now need to
> get something going on Gobo.
>
> I had a look at qmail, which has been at a stable
> version 1.03 forever. Then netqmail 1.06, which
> adds some patches. However, Gobo doesn't grok the
> build system.  It looks at the makefile and says:
> No variables found.
>
> Then I looked at postfix.  I first tried compiling a more
> recent version, but the recipe patches didn't apply cleanly.
>
> When I went back to 2.3.2, I got some errors.
>
> ATTENTION: Unknown system type: Linux 3.14.2-Gobo
> Makefile.in:17: recipe for target "Makefiles" failed.
>
> Then I looked at exim. Tried this:
>
> MakeRecipe Exim4 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-4.84.tar.bz2
>
> Also, no variables found.
You are free to write your own recipes for things. MakeRecipe,
especially for Makefile recipes, is just a first guess and a way of
avoiding having to compute the checksums yourself, and it's expected
that you may need to add additional configuration and such to the
recipe. You can set your own make variables in the recipe, and provide
your own build and configuration logic if necessary in the various
pre/post/..._build/install/... functions. Have a look at some existing
makefile recipes for examples of how that can go.
-Michael