Re: [Exim] Building EXIM on Darwin (Mac OSX)

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Author: Joel Rennich
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Building EXIM on Darwin (Mac OSX)
Hmmm. Exim 4.0.1 seems to compile fine. Let me put it in and run it for
a bit on two or three machines here and I'll let you know if anything
funny goes on. Otherwise leave the build file alone.

Thanks for a great piece of software.

Joel

On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 04:26 AM, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Joel Rennich wrote:
>
>> An apology and clarification. I meant to say Exim not Postfix in my
>> previous post. Quite an embarrassing mistake on my part.
>
> <grin>
>
>> While 3.34 will
>> build without help. Exim 4 needs this line in the build file to compile
>> successfully on Darwin 5.3 (OSX 10.1.3).
>
> Well, I know zilch about Darwin. The configuration file in the Exim
> distribution was contributed by somebody. So I can't even begin to guess
> what there is in Exim 4 that is different to Exim 3, causing it to
> require this line.
>
> 1. What error do you get if you omit this line?
>
> 2. Should I add this line to the default Darwin configuration file for
>    Exim 4?

>
>>> You need to add "-flat_namespace" to the CFLAGS in the Darwin OS
>>> buildfile. After that it builds like a dream on OSX 10.1.3.
>
>
> Philip
>
>
> --
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

>