Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:31:10 +0000 From: Chris Hastie <lists@oak-wood.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Problems with Postfix port] Message-ID: <20060420123110.x4tus7lpw8g4w4c0@imp.oak-wood.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4446AD82.2040607@FreeBSD.org> References: <4446A8E5.20507@utdallas.edu> <4446AD82.2040607@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Marcus Alves Grando <mnag@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > It's a known problem. > > Use mail/postfix-policyd-spf instead of SPF patch. > Probably be good if the SPF option wasn't available in mail/postfix then :) Ironically, I don't need the SPF patch because I do SPF lookups, amongst many other things, in a home spun policy daemon. But including it caused spawn to fail meaning I couldn't run that policy daemon. > Paul Schmehl wrote: >> I'm forwarding this to the ports list. Obviously someone needs to look >> in to the libspfs port and fix the problem with it. >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Problems with Postfix port >> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:57:55 +0100 >> From: Chris Hastie <lists@oak-wood.co.uk> >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> References: <20060419123750.bdrk23dpw8o8skok@imp.oak-wood.co.uk> >> <4446532D.4050204@daleco.biz> <444671E9.9090904@utdallas.edu> >> >> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote >>> Kevin Kinsey wrote: >>>>> To build Postfix on FreeBSD you MUST USE the FreeBSD >>>>> getopt() system routine, not the GNU version." >>>>> >>>>> Is this likely to be the case if I installed from the port? If so, >>>>> how do I get >>>>> around it? And any suggestions about spawn? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>> It doesn't seem likely to me that this is the problem, >>> >>> To me either. I ran into a problem a while back with Postfix, and >>> that's the same answer they gave me. It turned out to be a problem >>> with SPF. Once I deselected that, postfix compiled fine. >> >> Ah, I think they are connected. I had a response off list that suggested >> adding -DPREPEND_PLUS_TO_OPTSTRING to MAKEFILEFLAGS in the postfix >> makefile. A google on this led me to a suggestion from Wietse that this >> hack is unnecessary and "Perhaps you linked Postfix with some >> third-party library (SSL? SASL? SQL?) that includes its own >> brain-damaged getopt() routine." >> >> Digging a bit deeper, I spotted a suggestion that SPF might be that >> third-party library, so recompiled without that option and bingo! It all >> works again. > > -- > Marcus Alves Grando > marcus(at)corp.grupos.com.br | Grupos Internet S/A > mnag(at)FreeBSD.org | FreeBSD.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Chris Hastie
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