Quoth Nigel Metheringham on Thu, Dec 24, 1998:
> Gnu configure is good for determining portability features, but not for
> configurability features - the command lines get unwieldy.
I'll second that. And Exim has its portability features
hardcoded into OS/{os.[ch],Makefile}-OperatingSystemName, which
is pretty good. It's ported to several platforms, it doesn't
need to run 50 test each time you re-build Makefile, it doesn't
try to run on ToasterUNIX before you port it to it, and porting
is pretty much trivial. I like the way Exim builds itself.
> Anyhow, if there is syslog support then I would much rather have it always
> enabled and configured in by the startup file.
You mean, the config file? I'd like that.
> There may also be issues
> of length of log lines - exim writes some seriously long lines if you have
> logging of subjects and recipients, and some (old) syslog libraries would
> take that as an invitation to overwrite your stack.... so exim would also
> need to change its log format to avoid opening new security holes. Ugh!
Umm.
Vadik.
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