On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:40:30PM +0300, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> * Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@???> [20031107 13:24]: wrote:
> > On (2003/11/07 13:12), Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> >
> > > > I think you may have to build a Linux binary of Exim, and then run
> > > > _that_ on FreeBSD.
> > > >
> > > > Crazy-sounding, I know. But it should work. You're likely to pull
> > > > quite a bit of hair out during the process of tweaking the build,
> > > > though.
> > >
> > > In other words, you are inversely suggesting that I'll have an easier
> > > life running all this stuff under Linux. Pooh! And the way I have a
> > > phobia for Linux...
> >
> > That depends on how much trouble you have building a Linux binary for
> > Exim that'll work on FreeBSD.
>
> Right. Am I correct in assuming that you are saying I go into a Linux
> box, build an Exim binary with support for Oracle+Perl+MySQL then
> move that to FreeBSD, pull a few hairs putting some libraries in
> some paths, etc??
You may also try to link Exim against the Oracle 7 library from ports
(databases/oracle7-client). This library has strange origins and won't
work (as I was told) with Oracle newer than 8.x. But two ports
(p5-DBD-Oracle and php4) successfully use this library.
Regards,
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