[exim] Exim 4.96 compile fails on Devuan 4

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Author: Mike Tubby
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To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Exim 4.96 compile fails on Devuan 4
Hi all,

Compiling Exim 4.96 fails on Devuan 4.0 Chimaera (basically Debian but
without systemd).

Firstly it complained that I didn't have "pcre2.h" - which it has never
asked for before:

    /bin/sh ../scripts/Configure-os.h
    cc -DMACRO_PREDEF macro_predef.c
    In file included from macro_predef.c:12:
    exim.h:527:10: fatal error: pcre2.h: No such file or directory
      527 | #include <pcre2.h>
          |          ^~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.

so I did:

    root@relay1:/home/mike/exim-4.96# apt-cache search pcre2
    elpa-pcre2el - Emacs mode to convert between PCRE, Emacs and rx
regexp syntax
    libpcre2-16-0 - New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library - 16
bit runtime files
    libpcre2-32-0 - New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library - 32
bit runtime files
    libpcre2-8-0 - New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library- 8
bit runtime files
    libpcre2-dev - New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library -
development files
    libpcre2-posix2 - New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library -
posix-compatible runtime files
    libpcre3 - Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library -
runtime files
    libpcre3-dev - Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library -
development files
    librust-grep-pcre2-dev - Use PCRE2 with the 'grep' crate - Rust
source code
    librust-pcre2-dev - High level wrapper library for PCRE2 - Rust
source code
    librust-pcre2-sys-dev - Low level bindings to PCRE2 - Rust source code
    pcre2-utils - New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library -
utilities
    root@relay1:/home/mike/exim-4.96#

and installed the bits I thought I needed:

    root@relay1:/home/mike/exim-4.96# apt-get install libpcre2-dev
libpcre2-posix2
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    The following additional packages will be installed:
      libpcre2-16-0 libpcre2-32-0
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      libpcre2-16-0 libpcre2-32-0 libpcre2-dev libpcre2-posix2
    0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 1,231 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 3,980 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
    Get:1 http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64
libpcre2-16-0 amd64 10.36-2 [231 kB]
    Get:2 http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64
libpcre2-32-0 amd64 10.36-2 [220 kB]
    Get:3 http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64
libpcre2-posix2 amd64 10.36-2 [49.1 kB]
    Get:4 http://gb.deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64
libpcre2-dev amd64 10.36-2 [731 kB]
    Fetched 1,231 kB in 4s (311 kB/s)

    <snip>


Now hen I compile I get:

    cc spool_mbox.c
    cc arc.c
    cc bmi_spam.c
    cc dane.c
    cc dcc.c
    cc dmarc.c
    cc imap_utf7.c
    cc spf.c
    cc utf8.c
    cc version.c
    cc -o exim
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.o: in function `show_whats_supported':
    exim.c:(.text+0x95b): undefined reference to `pcre2_config_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.o: in function `regex_must_compile':
    exim.c:(.text+0xf96): undefined reference to `pcre2_compile_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0xfcd): undefined reference to
`pcre2_general_context_create_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0xfd8): undefined reference to
`pcre2_compile_context_create_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0xfff): undefined reference to
`pcre2_compile_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0x100f): undefined reference to
`pcre2_compile_context_free_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0x1017): undefined reference to
`pcre2_general_context_free_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0x1030): undefined reference to
`pcre2_get_error_message_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0x1072): undefined reference to
`pcre2_get_error_message_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.o: in function `regex_match_and_setup':
    exim.c:(.text+0x10c8): undefined reference to
`pcre2_match_data_create_from_pattern_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0x10f2): undefined reference to
`pcre2_match_8'
    /usr/bin/ld: exim.c:(.text+0x1132): undefined reference to
`pcre2_get_error_message_8'

    ...

    <snip>

    ...



Can't seem to find what's missing ... any ideas?


Mike