Re: errno-patch (Re: Email servers)

Charlie Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> (1) is also in question - "download, compile, and install" doesn't
>> obviously include "edit".
>
> It's not an edit, it's a build time configuration, provided by Dan.

You may choose to call it that, but regardless, you are in fact
editing a file, even if it is a specific kind of editing.  Condition 1
does not explicitly mention any editing (not even by the name of
"configuration"), and the INSTALL* files do not mention editing
conf-cc.  You are making inferences based on the name of the file and
the way the file is used by the build system; that is a long way from
explicit permission.

> And it seems that you are not parsing 1) the same way that I am. I am
> interpreting "the same .. hierarchy" to mean "the same set of files and
> directories".

We interpret that part the same way.  On glibc 2.3 systems,
downloading, compiling, and installing produces a different set of
files under /var/qmail (specifically, an empty set, since compilation
fails) than what you get if you download, fix the errno problem,
compile, and install.


paul