Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.8 build issue
George R. Kasica wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:02:03 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Phil Pennock<exim-users@???> wrote:
>>
>>> You need to remove the build directory, and/or "make makefile" after
>>> making changes to how Exim is built.
>>
>> George, you can do 'make distclean' which does 'rm -rf build*'. The
>> 'make makefile' won't fix every compile-oriented problem, but it fixes
>> most things that don't involve compile/link cli args. The 'make
>> distclean' wipes the build directory (the staging ground for the build
>> process) and starts the whole build process with a blank slate.
>>
>> ...Todd
>>
>
> OK...did the make distclean and make makefile after the edits here and
> then make.
>
> Results of each below - sadly not successful:
George,
It really, really, is not an Exim issue....
=== > > Its a generic linux from scratch system more or less...startd out as a
> Caldera Open Linux way back in 1995 but with the demise of that it was
> converted over to a build from scratch on a new set of disks and the
> data copies over around 2001 and maintained and able to compile every
> version of exim up to now with no major issues.
===
Eleven years ago?
Fossil that I am, even I had moved on from FreeBSD 4.X by the FOUR year
mark. And it had not BEEN a kludge of the above sort to begin with...
Trying to keep archeo-coprolytes going by piecemeal measures is giving
rise to a collective headache. Or maybe I have the wrong end of the anatomy.
Put the latest and best onto another box, focus on upgrading those apps
that supposedly don't have modern equivalents (which I do not believe),
and prep for the classical 'parallel cutover' .. to carry you the NEXT
fifteen years if you must.
Nothing lasts forever, least of all rapidly evolving F/LOSS software..
Otherwise, the museum - or troll parking lot - is down the hall somewhere...
