At 7:09 AM -0700 4/13/01, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Matt Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Has anyone successfully installed qmail on Mac OSX public beta? i get
> > this far:
If by "public beta" you mean release, yes. It's a royal pain but it
can be done.
> >
>> Remove "-s" from conf-ld, or try changing it to "-x".
>
>[During the course of this email I actually got this to compile. Patch
>at the end]
>
>What are you hoping -x will do? Unfortunately this doesn't work on
>OS X 10.0:
>
>cc: language qmail-pop3d not recognized
>[...]
>
>With
>% grep cc conf-ld
>cc
>%
>
>..it can't find the struct:
>
>./load qmail-pop3d commands.o case.a timeoutread.o \
>timeoutwrite.o maildir.o prioq.o now.o env.a strerr.a sig.a \
>open.a getln.a stralloc.a alloc.a substdio.a error.a str.a \
>fs.a `cat socket.lib`
>/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
>_strerr_sys
>
>..which is odd, 'cos it's (apparently) there:
Mac OS X's ld, which is not GNU ld, is *horrible* at handling static
libraries. In conf-ld, you should put "cc -all_load", which helps
get you through most of the problems. But eventually you'll need to
add a "alloc.a" to the end a bunch of the build instructions in the
Makefile for various programs.
The other problem I had seems to be related to HFS+, which,
unfortunately, seems to be the only type of filesystem you can
reliably install OS X on. I let the installation go into /var/qmail,
which of course is on my Mac OS X HFS+ partition. It worked for a
while, but then I started getting
deferral: Unable_to_find_alias_user!
in the logs. Of course, the qmail users all existed. (Putting all
the users and groups properly into NetInfo was the hardest part of
this process.) On a hunch, I moved /var/qmail to my UFS partition
and it's worked flawlessly since.
>
>% nm strerr.a | grep strerr_sys
>strerr.a(strerr_sys.o):
>00000010 C _strerr_sys
>00000000 T _strerr_sysinit
> U _strerr_sysinit
>%
>
>Well, this patch seemed to work. (Why it needs initializing I have no idea)
>
>% diff -u strerr_sys-orig.c strerr_sys.c
>--- strerr_sys-orig.c Fri Apr 13 07:05:19 2001
>+++ strerr_sys.c Fri Apr 13 07:04:40 2001
>@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> #include "error.h"
> #include "strerr.h"
>
>-struct strerr strerr_sys;
>+struct strerr strerr_sys = {0,0,0,0};
> int a_random_variable;
>
> void strerr_sysinit()
>%
>
>HTH,
>Paul
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Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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