Re: [exim] Getting 4.88 on centos 7

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: James Lovejoy
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Getting 4.88 on centos 7
You can find the package in the epel-testing repo for CentOS 7.
Currently, on my system, it's listed as exim-4.88-2.el7.x86_64 and
working just fine.

> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> I'm trying to get the latest version of exim running on centos 7. I looked
> for an rpm download of 4.88 and never found one so I've downloaded the code
> and am trying to get a build.
>
>
>
> I've run across a snag when compiling that I can't seem to get around.
>
>
>
> It's looking for srs_alt.h - I've looked for a libsrs and libsrs2 with the
> developer package for centos 7 but haven't found them either in yum or
> looking at build packages on the web. I found instructions to build it on
> centos 7 but was really hoping I could find another alternative.
>
>
>
> 1)      Is there an rpm I can use to just install the latest version of
> exim?  If not.

>
> 2)      Does anyone know where I can get the necessary dev packages to build
> exim?  I've been slugging through them one at a time and am stuck on this
> srs library.

>
>
>
> Ideally I would be able to turn on the same options as my initial test which
> I've included below.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
>
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
>
> PS - I tried running the command exim -bV and I got
>
>
>
> Exim version 4.84_2 #1 built 18-Apr-2016 14:36:56
>
> Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2014
>
> (c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 -
> 2014
>
> Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.21: (May 11, 2012)
>
> Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl Expand_dlfunc TCPwrappers OpenSSL
> Content_Scanning DKIM Old_Demime PRDR OCSP
>
> Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz
> dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm nis nis0 nisplus passwd sqlite
>
> Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot gsasl plaintext spa
>
> Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
>
> Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
>
> Fixed never_users: 0
>
> Size of off_t: 8
>
>
>
>
>
>
>