Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:50:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: sendmail.mc Message-ID: <38F6DBE1.C6BDB148@newsguy.com> References: <E12fRXk-000FxI-00@rip.psg.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004121700090.11683-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <E12fVK5-000JvU-00@rip.psg.com> <38F6265B.F1B436F0@newsguy.com> <E12fqVG-0001P1-00@rip.psg.com>
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Randy Bush wrote: > > is the assumption of the one-time build really that acceptable? > > to quote someone Steve in another email: > > All the m4 configuration stuff in the sendmail distribution is nicely > isolated under the sendmail-8.9.3/cf subdirectory. It doesn't depend on > other material from the rest of the source tree, except for the Build > script that could be replaced with a plain Makefile. > > Take a look at a Solaris 7 system sometime; they provide a version of > sendmail 8.9.3 with the base OS distribution and put the complete m4 > configuration package under /usr/lib/mail including the templates used > to build their main.cf and subsidiary.cf files. The total cost in space > is a little over 300K. MMmmmm... I looked into Solaris 7, and could not find a way to rebuild the whole system with the options and compilation flags I wanted. I guess they must do things a little bit different, eh? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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