On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Frank S. Bernhardt wrote:
> I can't seem to build Exim on my OpenServer 5.0.6 system.
Sorry, I have no experience of such systems.
> It gave 2 warnings saying that there was no library for -lperl or -lgdbm
Have you tried building the simplest possible version of Exim? I.e.
without embedded Perl?
> After a long time (it's running on a P133) I get the messages:
>
> PL_errgv perl.o
> exim: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to exim
Looks like the problem may indeed be in the Perl stuff.
> I am not a c programmer (COBOL, actually) so I have no idea what's
> wrong. I suspect it has something to do with the -lperl and -lgdbm
> messages on the 'make makefile'. But, it seems to be finding perl ok
> because I watch it using the perl libraries (I think). As for gdbm, in
> your Makefile-SCO_SV you've specified 'DBMLIB=-lndbm' so why it's
> looking for gdbm is beyond me.
I suspect it's Perl that is looking for gdbm.
Try without Perl!
> # EXIM_PERL=perl.o
> EXIM_PERL=perl.o
In other words, comment that line out.
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