I'm with Steve on this. When 1.06 came out, I had to go through a few hoops to get it to work on my solaris boxen, due to the same sorts of 'linux only' additions to the code.
Let's remember folks, a major part of the philosophy behind Open Source is Interoperability. Solaris is not some backwoods, fly-by-night OS. It'll be around for a long time to come, and a _lot_ of sites still use it.
At 06:13 PM 01-16-2003, Steve Fulton wrote:
Hi all,
Those of you who have seen my e-mails over the last day are aware of the compile problems I have been having with QmailAdmin 1.0.7.xxxx and Solaris. Those of you who have not now are.
I am aware that a number of contributions have been made and those make up the 1.0.7 version. However many of those additions have, unintentionally, now excluded the Solaris OS from running QmailAdmin 1.0.7 and likely future versions, if they include the same problematic functions.
FYI, those functions are: "alphasort" in alias.c and the "fts" functions (fts_open, fts_read, fts_number etc etc) in util.c
I have spent the last day importing libraries, headers and searching for and compiling programs for the Solaris 8 machines I maintain. I was able to add an appropriate header for the alphasort() function, but less experienced admins may not have the wherewithal to do this. I have also discovered that fts is not available for Solaris. My attempts to port it have failed.
Unless others can succeed where I have failed, I am officially suggesting that QmailAdmin remove those functions and find alternates which are compatible with all the major OS'es. Otherwise, QmailAdmin should explicitedly state that Solaris is not supported. Unfortunately this will preclude a number of current users from upgrading, and there may be a cascade effect detrimental to Vpopmail. Let me also say to those ardent BSD and Linux users who may have negative comments regarding Solaris: don't bother.
-- Steve.
Paul Theodoropoulos http://www.anastrophe.com http://folding.stanford.edu The Nicest Misanthrope on the Net Paul Theodoropoulos http://www.anastrophe.com http://folding.stanford.edu The Nicest Misanthrope on the Net
