Re: [Exim] 3.31 with minimal compiled-in stuff won't fscking…

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Author: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: S. Joel Bernstein, John Burnham, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] 3.31 with minimal compiled-in stuff won't fscking compile
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:

> For all I know, there may be an OS that has it installed as standard

Red Hat (and probably other) Linux, at least for suitable values of
standard.
> and you don't need -lwrap at all.

I haven't tried so don't know, but I'd guess you still need -lwrap, but
that the compiler can find it for itself.


> I'm afraid I rather assumed that anybody who had installed TCP wrappers
> on their system would know how to build programs to use it. This was a
> mistake, so I added what little I knew to the Exim manual. I will add a
> bit more to the EDITME (but probably not till Exim 4).


I'm worried about a world in which you can't assume that a mail
administrator who compiles his own programs knows as much about
his system as you do. Even if the assumption is wrong, you should
be allowed to make that assumption, at least until he pays you to
know about his system.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@???    http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna