Compile on CentOS 4 errors

Hi all,

I have been tearing my hair out trying to get vmailmgr to make on CentOS =
4. I have now achieved a successful make but want to check with you guys =
to make sure I have not done anything incorrectly. Please comment if you =
see anything I have done wrong in this process.

1/ Had the usual issues with string.h and stdlib.h and found (what I =
think is) a pretty concise solution to that, rather than just taking a =
patch at face value like I have in the past. The patches found via =
google and this list's archives differed in how they handled this, so I =
studied it somewhat and ended up doing the following:-
- add the #include <string.h> line to ./lib/mystring/mystring.h
- add the #include <stdlib.h> line to ./authenticate/authvlib.h

Only two changes!

Other patches I found were adding <string.h> to ./lib/misc/exec.cc, =
./lib/misc/keystrlist.cc, lib/mystring/append.cc, and =
./lib/misc/strlist.cc.

Seeing as they all loaded ./lib/mystring/mystring.h via strlist.h, it =
seemed logical to just include it in mystring.h.

2/ Then had the gcc 3 issue to contend with. Found 3 patches that =
differed slightly. They had some changes to 4 x Makefile.* (either =
Makefile.in or Makefile.am), plus some text changes to 4 x =
commands/v*.cc.

I made a patch that modifies the Makefile.am files in the following =
directories:
- ./authenticate/ ./cgi/ ./commands/ and ./daemon/

The changes are to only one line and that is:
-CXXLINK =3D $(CC) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
+CXXLINK =3D $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@

The text changes I made were those submitted on this list by Alejandro =
Mery in his post subject "[PATCH] vmailmgr 0.96.9 and gcc3[34]" (thanks =
Alejandro). They apply to the following files in the ./commands/ =
directory:
- vcheckquota.cc, vchforwards.cc, vpasswd2cdb.cc, and vpasswd2db.cc

3/ This still did not make. It had an error stating it aclocal.m4 was =
created by an old version of automake. Running aclocal did not work. It =
complained about line 2, 13, and 22 of acinclude.m4, saying the items =
there were underquoted.

I edited the acinclude.m4 file and wrapped the following strings in []:
- TRY_CXX_FLAG, CXX_NO_RTTI, CXX_NO_EXCEPTIONS
These are on lines with AC_DEFUN definitions.

Although I am not sure what I am doing with automake, this allowed =
aclocal to run.

4/ This still did not finish its make. It then complained about a =
missing file ./depcomp so after finding James Thornton's web site, I =
copied the depcomp file from /usr/share/automake-1.9/ to the source =
root.

5/ It compiled without errors and make check showed no errors either.

Does this mean I have compiled OK with no holes or bugs left in the code =
to catch me out?

I can post the combined (the way I have described above) string.h, =
stdlib.h, and gcc3 patch to the source code if anyone wants it. I have a =
patch for acinclude.m4 but patch complains about a reversed patch when I =
try to apply to original source file. Not sure what happened there, but =
you are welcome to it if you want.

Hope this helps others trying to get this thing to go on CentOS4 or =
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.

kind regards
Graham

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