Re: [Exim] Suggestion about EXIM_USER at built time

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Lähettäjä: Philip Hazel
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Vastaanottaja: Matthias Bernhardt
Kopio: exim-users, Andreas Metzler
Uudet otsikot: Re: [Exim] Encoding the name of EXIM_USER instead of its user-id in the exim-binary.
Aihe: Re: [Exim] Suggestion about EXIM_USER at built time
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Matthias Bernhardt wrote:

> while researching the problem that the build process throws
>
> *** User "exim" (specified in one of the Makefiles) does not exist.
>     Please review your build-time configuration.

>
> if the user specified in EXIM_USER in Local/Makefile, I found
> that many people, mainly package builders, already have
> complained about this behaviour, while many others can't
> understand why this is a pain for package builders.


See my response to Andreas Metzler's similar posting, just a few minutes
ago.

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