Re: [EXIM] Exim 1.80 bombs out

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Author: Philip Blundell
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To: Patrick Cole
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Exim 1.80 bombs out
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.971210182950.1843D-100000@???>, Patrick
Cole writes:
>I'm trying to compile Exim 1.80 on my intel Linux machine, it won't
>recognise it as a working linux system for some reason. Here's the error:
>
>btw - I'm using gnu libc2 but i imagine the makefiles should be able to be
>modified to accomodate for this.


I've built Exim (albeit older versions) on glibc2 machines with no problems.

>*** Sorry - operating system linux-gnu is not supported


For some reason it's decided that your machine is a `linux-gnu' one. For
political reasons the FSF are pushing this as the canonical system name for
Linux machines these days (after a brief spell of trying `lignux').

p.



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