https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2898
Bug ID: 2898
Summary: exim -bem <file> behaves odd if libreadline.so is
missing and USE_READLINE=yes was used to build
Product: Exim
Version: 4.96
Hardware: x86
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: bug
Priority: medium
Component: General execution
Assignee: unallocated@???
Reporter: wbreyha@???
CC: exim-dev@???
I build my Exims with USE_READLINE=yes, but I failed to add a requirement in my
RPM Spec file. So far my fault. But libreadline.so is not needed to build Exim
to use it.
I installed the Exim RPM as usual on my el8 hosts and I wanted to use "exim
-bem <file>". To my surprise Exim complained about a lot, but not the missing
libreadline.so.
Parts of the messagebody after the header were output and stuff like
> LOG: PANIC
Exim configuration error in line 822 of /etc/mail/exim.cf:
malformed macro definition
With +d I recognized the
failed to load readline: libreadline.so: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory
after the header section.
Installing it fixes everything. No odd output and -bem works as expected.
Maybe Exim should exit with the "failed to load" message without +d instead of
failing badly and spilling misleading messages afterwards.
Will try to provide a patch or add a comment if I fail.
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