Re: Getting an MTA installed

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Joel Roth <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
FiboSandbox / UnionSandbox are automatically used when you attempt to
Compile something. No need to use it directly.


> > 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?
>
>
Ugh, yes. I was probably typing something else in parallel to that email
when I wrote that sentence. :-)


> > 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?
>
>
Yes, it is.


> 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.
>
>
That was a generic patch which I prepared to send to the maintainers of
IOZone, if I recall correctly. We do not have /opt in Gobo, but nothing
prevents you from creating it in order to store things like e.g. Google
Chrome or Earth.

Cheers,
Lucas

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