Re: Getting an MTA installed

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Joel Roth <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
First thing I usually do in these cases is to attempt to build the package
from the command line (i.e. without Compile). You'll probably have to edit
the Makefile and check if it allows one to override the system type
variable. If it does not, then you may need to patch the Makefile -- you
can then place the diff next to the Recipe file (e.g. diff -up
postfix/Makefile.orig postfix/Makefile >
/Data/Compile/LocalRecipes/Postfix/version/01-build.patch)

That should help you to automate the build of the package with Compile.

When MakeRecipe says that it could not find any variables, then you may
need to look at the Makefile and the README file provided by the package to
learn how to build it. Afterwards, you can edit the Recipe and set the
build_target=, make_variables=, and/or install_variables=. Please see at
the URL below for an example.

    http://recipes.gobolinux.org/r/?list=IOzone&ver=3.338-r1&file=Recipe

Best regards,
Lucas

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