Re: procmail-3.22 compiling error

On 2012-05-02 11:41+0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
>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.

Thanks for the advice, I'll install the package.

Cheers.