Re: Getting an MTA installed

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:37:58AM +1300, Michael Homer wrote:
> 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.

Some examples will help, I'm sure. I've been programming
long enough, just not in C and not much about makefiles up
to now. So there is that part, and then understanding the specifics
that pertain to Gobo.

Thanks,

Joel



> -Michael

-- 
Joel Roth