Re: [exim] Building exim on Debian Stretch

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Author: Bill Cole
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To: jpff via Exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Building exim on Debian Stretch
On 16 Jan 2019, at 15:03, jpff via Exim-users wrote:

> I am sure I a being obtuse here but.... I run exim on my firewall
> computer which for historical reasons runs Debian. I am in the
> process of upgrading to Stretch but I cannot build exim. I rather
> like to have my own build as (a) Debian lags behind current versions
> usually and (b) I have a lot of stuff in the configuration.
>
> Attempting the build on stretch I hit a problem with dbm.
> gcc -DMACRO_PREDEF macro_predef.c
> In file included from exim.h:493:0,
>                  from macro_predef.c:11:
> dbstuff.h:101:16: fatal error: db.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <db.h>
>                 ^
> compilation terminated.

>
> I cannot find a package to include Berkeley db, although it was there
> in Jessie.


https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/db5.3 is the source package
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libdb5.3 is the libraries themselves
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/db5.3-util is the utilities