Hi Chris
As far as I know, you should be able to install the source package via
apt-get:
sudo apt-get build-dep exim4
apt-get source exim4
The first step should make sure that all the necessary components are
installed as well. The second step will download the sources into the
current directory.
Regards
Stef
On 13 August 2014 23:13, Chris Bunch <chris.bunch@???> wrote:
> If anyone has experience of compiling & installing Exim on Linux your
> insights would be invaluable.
>
> I have been running Exim (and other servers) on Mac OS X for many years
> but am now having to migrate them to a cloud system on Linode. I have
> always compiled from source on Mac OS X rather than using packages (there
> weren't any back then, and it 'just worked'). I can see that the issue on
> Linux is going to be where the various libraries are (or aren't), for
> example (from 'make'):
>
> In file included from exim.h:490:0,
> from exim_dbmbuild.c:31:
> dbstuff.h:371:18: fatal error: gdbm.h: No such file or directory
>
> Yes there are Exim packages available which will install in a breeze but,
> you know, I prefer to understand what I am installing and where. Any advice
> or pointers to relevant docs would be appreciated.
>
> Chris
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