Re: WARNING: exim 4.99 Fedora current build disfunctional

On 2025/11/17 1:38 PM, Tim Jackson via Exim-users wrote:
> Is it possible that this originates in the Exim upstream itself? I'm not very familiar with the whole Exim build system, and haven't tried building 4.99 myself but at a casual glance, module loading and drtables.c has had a revamp and seems to now try to dlopen() a file named "<modname>_lookup.so" for lookups (e.g. mysql_lookup.so), which is new, but lookups/Makefile still refers to (for example) mysql.so. Maybe I'm misunderstanding though.

Nope.  The project build sequence results in "<modname>_lookup.so"  *in a different directory*
(along with .so files for any routers, transports, authenticators and other misc components
which the build config has been set to build as loadbable modules.

The file <modname>.so is a precursor, and they should not have been trying to use it.

I think this is a mistake in the Fedora package build.  However, it is a step not well
detailed in Exim's documentation so I've added a bit of descriptions in EDITME file (which
becomes a makefile).

-- 
Cheers,
   Jeremy

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