I had no another plan: Compiling an older exim, which gives me warnings about tainted strings, but accept them. But it looks like, that all the tar-balls or zip-archives available in
https://github.com/Exim/exim/tags
cannot be compiled.
It starts with the fact, that everythings gets unpacked in a directory: exim-exim-4.xx, with a duplicate exim in its name.
This directory contains the following files:
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 configs
drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 doc
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 release-process
drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 src
drwxrwxr-x 18 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 test
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 .github
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2316 30. Mai 2020 Readme.pod
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1104 30. Mai 2020 SECURITY.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1020 30. Mai 2020 .editorconfig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 63 30. Mai 2020 .exim-project-root
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 299 30. Mai 2020 .gitattributes
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 57 30. Mai 2020 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1916 30. Mai 2020 .mailmap
while src contains:
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 exim_monitor
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 OS
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 scripts
drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 src
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 30. Mai 2020 util
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 333 30. Mai 2020 ABOUT
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 27739 30. Mai 2020 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 387 30. Mai 2020 CHANGES
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 67 30. Mai 2020 conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2725 30. Mai 2020 CONTRIBUTING
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 28 30. Mai 2020 .ctags
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 39 30. Mai 2020 .gitattributes
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 28 30. Mai 2020 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 18008 30. Mai 2020 LICENCE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1764 30. Mai 2020 LICENSE.opendmarc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4222 30. Mai 2020 Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 7164 30. Mai 2020 NOTICE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 16157 30. Mai 2020 README
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5942 30. Mai 2020 README.DSN
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 40594 30. Mai 2020 README.UPDATING
The README tells me:
Unpacking the tar file should produce a single directory called exim-<version>,
containing the following files and directories:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS some acknowledgments
CHANGES a conventional file name; it indirects to some files in doc/
LICENCE the GNU General Public Licence
Local/ an empty directory for local configuration files
Makefile top level Makefile
NOTICE notice about conditions of use
OS/ directory containing OS-specific files
README this file
README.UPDATING special notes about updating from previous versions
doc/ directory of documentation files
exim_monitor/ directory of source files for the Exim monitor
scripts/ directory of scripts used in the build process
src/ directory of source files
util/ directory of independent utilities
which does not match the directory structure I find in the archives. I knew from previous compiles, that the structure looked like this. Ok in here is another src-directory:
That looks like the source code, I have expected on step higher. In here is also the EDITME.
I created a directory Local like described in the README, but I have no success with calling make.
So I moved that directory with my Makefile down into the first src-directory, and I am finally able to call make.
But this fails with:
./macro_predef > macro.c
/bin/sh: 1: .: cannot open ./version.sh: No such file
and there is no version.sh in the whole package.
I tested this for all 4,94xxx variants, and as well with the latest 4,98, just to be sure.
I donloaded the zip files and the tgz files, both containing the same directory structure, which cannot be compiled.
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