Re: Getting an MTA installed

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:30:55PM -0200, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> 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). 

Hi Lucas,

To avoid having these attempts littering the file system
with mistakes, is it correct that I can use FiboSandbox?

> You'll probably have to edit the Makefile and check if it
> allows one to override the system type variable. 

Do you mean environment variables?

> 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

In Recipe, I see that PREFIX is set in install_variables:

install_variables=(
	PREFIX=$target
)

So $target is supplied by Compile?

Another question: why does the Makefile patch introduce the
following line?  Doesn't it defeat any external change to
PREFIX?

PREFIX = /opt/iozone

Also I didn't think that /opt was part of the Gobo directory tree.

Thanks for helping with my early ignorance!

 
> Best regards,
> Lucas

-- 
Joel Roth