Ok. Now I'm really confused.
I copied all of exim-3.33 to my SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 machine where I had
successfully built Apache/PHP/MySQL.
I had an initial problem that it couldn't find /usr/lib/libsocket.so.2 so I
did a ln -s libsocket.so libsocket.so.2.
After another make it complained it couldn't find -ldb. Now on that machine I
had gdbm-1.7.3 installed so I took out the DBMLIB=-ldb from the Makefile.
The damn thing built clean!
I then re-added perl.o, did a make makefile then a make.
It built clean too!
Ok, now this probably isn't the list to ask these kinds of questions but, here
goes:
1) How do I know or can I tell what libraries I need to make something like
exim or any other package? Where should these libraries come from and where
should they be placed (/usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, ...)?
2) What tools need to be installed? (gcc, cc, make, gnu make, flex, bison,
ar,....)?
3) If I take the runtime to another machine with no develpment system on it,
will it run without all the above libraries and programs?
Remember, I really don't know much about compiling stuff under C. It took me 2
man weeks to get my apache/php/mysql built and that only with a lot of outside
help. I'm not sure I could reproduce the results on a new machine (case in
point) as I installed tons of different libraries and programs until it
finally built (shotgun approach).
Is there a document/book explaining all this?
I don't want to become a C programmer, I just want to use the programs.
Yes, I know, I should move to a Linux distro from SCO Openserver, but most of
my customers are still running SCO so I have to support them.
Sorry if I seem frustrated, I am. Although exim built clean, I would like to
know what I did to get it to build cleanly. There has to be a science to it.
Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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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