On 2014-08-13, 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.
try this:
sudo apt-get build-dep exim4
that should get you all the libraries, and header fikses you need to
build the ubuntu version of exim, this should also be enough to build
exim from the official source.
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