On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Victor Ustugov via Exim-users wrote:
> Mike Tubby via Exim-users wrote on 12.09.2022 00:27:
>>
>>>> Compiling Exim 4.96 fails on Devuan 4.0 Chimaera (basically Debian
>>>> but without systemd).
> Try to install libpcre2-dev
>From Mike's original email:
> and installed the bits I thought I needed:
>
> root@relay1:/home/mike/exim-4.96# apt-get install libpcre2-dev libpcre2-posix2
So he has done that.
> Or you may use source package from Debian repo:
>
> wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96-3.dsc
> wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96.orig.tar.xz
> wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96.orig.tar.xz.asc
> wget http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.96-3.debian.tar.xz
Or perhaps
apt-get source exim4
- assuming you have a suitable source repo enabled.
> dpkg-source -x exim4_4.96-3.dsc
> cd exim4-4.96
> dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
> cd ..
>
> There are some additional patches in exim4-4.96/debian/patches.
>
> But you will have to install many more packages.
>
> These packages are for building packages:
>
> apt-get install -y dpkg-dev devscripts build-essential pbuilder quilt m4
> make
>
> These packages are for dependency resolving:
>
> apt-get install default-libmysqlclient-dev docbook-xml docbook-xsl
> libdb5.3-dev libgnutls28-dev libident-dev libidn11-dev libidn2-dev
> libldap2-dev libpam0g-dev libpcre2-dev libperl-dev libpq-dev
> libsasl2-dev libspf2-dev libsqlite3-dev libx11-dev libxaw7-dev
> libxext-dev libxmu-dev libxt-dev lynx xsltproc
I would expect that
apt-get build-dep exim4
would be simpler.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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