Setting os to Posix

Setting os to Posix

[Andreas Bergstrøm]

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I have been trying to compile Sendmail on my win95 box. (I need a decent
mailserver on a NT-server at school.) The problem is that it does not
recognize Cygwin as Unix/Linux, I believe the solution is to make Make think
it is compiling on a machine running Posix, but I have been unable to figure
out how. I have searced the mail archives, but all it turned up is every post
Ernie Boyd has posted to this list.

The error output is like this:

Making all in:
//E/Programfiler/cygnus/cygwin-b20/sendmail-8.9.3/src
Configuration: os=CYGWIN_95-4.0, rel=20.1 -0.3/1/1, rbase=20, rroot=20.1 -0, arc
h=i486, sfx=
[: -0.3/1/1.i486: unknown operand
[: -0.i486: unknown operand
[: -0.3/1/1: unknown operand
[: -0.3/1/1.i486: unknown operand
[: -0.3/1/1: unknown operand
[: -0.3/1/1.i486: unknown operand
[: -0.3/1/1.i486: unknown operand
[: -0.i486: unknown operand
[: -0.i486: unknown operand
[: -0.3/1/1: unknown operand

Thanks in advance.

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Andreas Bergstrøm

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sendmail [Re: Setting os to Posix]

[Mumit Khan]

Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bergstr=F8m?= <abergstr@halden.net> writes:
> I have been trying to compile Sendmail on my win95 box. (I need a decent
> mailserver on a NT-server at school.) The problem is that it does not
> recognize Cygwin as Unix/Linux, I believe the solution is to make Make think
> it is compiling on a machine running Posix, but I have been unable to figure
> out how. I have searced the mail archives, but all it turned up is every post
> Ernie Boyd has posted to this list.

Sendmail needs "ports" before it'll work cleanly on a new machine/OS,
and has precious little to do with POSIX or otherwise. It's just much
easier to create these OS-specific port files for POSIX systems.

I have patches for sendmail-8.9.3 that seems to work ok on Cygwin v1.0
and Cygwin b20.1 (I don't remember which snapshot I was running when
testing sendmail running as a daemon). These changes borrow some work 
from Sergey Okhapkin's previous efforts, and adds some new stuff. 
However, there are security issues that I have not paid *that* much 
attention to it, and various other oddities that I'd since forgotten 
about. I do remember that it causes problems on Win9x when running as 
a daemon, but NT should be fine. On either Win9x or NT, it's a fine 
tool for MUA's such as mail, pine, etc.

I'll clean up the patches and upload next week. You'll also need to 
build bind, and I'll upload the changes against bind-8.2.2-p5 that 
should apply cleanly against newer versions as well.

No guarantees, and I doubt if I'll have the time answer questions
regarding the various changes. 

Regards,
Mumit

ps: It's helpful if you would use a more representative subject line,
such as one that includes "sendmail".


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Re: sendmail [Re: Setting os to Posix]

[Andreas Bergstrøm]

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Mumit Khan wrote:
> Sendmail needs "ports" before it'll work cleanly on a new machine/OS,
> and has precious little to do with POSIX or otherwise. It's just much
> easier to create these OS-specific port files for POSIX systems.

I see, thanks.
 
> I have patches for sendmail-8.9.3 that seems to work ok on Cygwin v1.0
> and Cygwin b20.1 (I don't remember which snapshot I was running when
> testing sendmail running as a daemon). These changes borrow some work
> from Sergey Okhapkin's previous efforts, and adds some new stuff.
> However, there are security issues that I have not paid *that* much
> attention to it, and various other oddities that I'd since forgotten
> about. I do remember that it causes problems on Win9x when running as
> a daemon, but NT should be fine. On either Win9x or NT, it's a fine
> tool for MUA's such as mail, pine, etc.

Thanks, it is just what I need.

> No guarantees, and I doubt if I'll have the time answer questions
> regarding the various changes.

Well, I will just have to figure it out by myself what should be done
after I patch Sendmail with your ports, I am just gratefull that you
made them.

> ps: It's helpful if you would use a more representative subject line,
> such as one that includes "sendmail".

Well, I believed at the time that compiling as if running Posix should do
the trick, but I was obviously wrong. I see now that this was more 
Sendmail/Cygwin related, but we all make mistakes.

Once again, thanks.

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Andreas Bergstrøm

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