Re: procmail-3.22 compiling error

On Tue, 1 May 2012, [email protected] wrote:

> On 2012-04-30 23:38+0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> I'll try it.
> 
> > I'm curious: Does not CentOS provide a procmail package?
> 
> It does, is it fun to build it :-)? 

Yes, it will be fun, but that way you will find a lot of bugs which
are already fixed in the vendor-provided package. Or even worse: You
will not find them and they will bite you if you use the resulting
binary, as some of them may only be reproduced in very corner cases.

If you really want to have fun, learn how to build a package the same
way your vendor does (i.e. how to build an rpm or dpkg binary package
from the CentOS or Debian source, etc) so that you can build on top of
that. You could then help to fix reported bugs, which is a lot fun as
well.