On 7 Jul 1998, Harald Meland wrote:
> I'm having a hard time getting Exim (1.92) to build on ULTRIX (4.4).
>
> First of all, as a bash user it is kind of a pain having to do "unset
> OSTYPE" in order for scripts/os-type to produce an OS the rest of the
> build process will recognize. Our ${OSTYPE}s are lowercase, like
> this:
That's easily fixed. The script already had
Ultrix) os=ULTRIX;;
I have added
ultrix*) os=ULTRIX;;
for the next release. However, I'm afraid I can't help with the rest of
the ULTRIX problems.
> Are there any plans for making exim use autoconf (and friends), as
> those packages have already solved most of the problems I'm reporting?
Somebody did try to autoconf Exim a while ago, intending to spend a
weekend doing it. Two weeks later, he essentially gave up. I suspect it
would be a huge job, and there are some things you cannot do
automatically, such as deciding which DBM library to use. I do not
myself have any plans to tackle this - I have too much else to do, for a
start. Sorry.
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