[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Mimedefang] More on mimedefang and x86_64

[Philip Prindeville]

Moving to fedora-packaging...

Seeking assistance from .x86_64 packaging gurudom.

Issues we're trying to solve here are:

* The package should be buildable without having all of the
   run-time requirements met (there are things that are called
   out as both BuildRequires: and Requires: that are really only
   the latter.

* When building on an x86_64 architecture, we should look
   for the libmilter stuff in /usr/lib64 and /lib64 also.  (Wasn't
   sure if this goes in the configure.in file, or should be an
   additional conditional argument passed into %configure
   instead...)

* It's not building any symbol-table exports for the debuginfo
   package, and I don't know why.

Can someone walk me through these issues?

David will post patches if we can get official blessings.

Thanks,

-Philip

P.s. Can the list admin please take .eml off the prohibited
   attachment suffix list?



Philip Prindeville wrote:

>Hmmm...
>
>I run sendmail/cyrus-imapd/spamassassin/mimedefang on an
>x86_64 machine (FC5 on an Athalon64 2800+) and it works fine.
>
>To keep the mail server simple, however, I wanted to build
>mimedefang-2.58 on a different machine, so I went ahead and
>grabbed all of the dependencies.
>
>I have to say, I was a bit configured.  It seems that the build-time
>dependencies have been muddled with the run-time dependencies.
>
>You don't need:
>
>BuildRequires: perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-MIME-tools perl-IO-stringy perl-MailTools
>
>
>in the .spec file, do you?  Can we yank this?  I just pulled it out
>and things built fine (oh, after adding "--disable-check-perl-modules"
>to the ./configure line).
>
>Further, if you install sendmail-devel but don't actually
>have sendmail installed on the machine (since your building,
>but not actually running)... then you might run afoul of the
>following scenario.  sendmail-devel installs (on an x86_64
>architecture) /usr/lib64/libmilter.a only.
>
>So, from configure.in:
>
>AC_PATH_PROG(LIBMILTER, libmilter.a, no, $MILTERLIB:$SMPATH:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/libmilter)
>SMPATH=`echo ../sendmail-*/obj.*/libsm`
>AC_PATH_PROG(LIBSM, libsm.a, no, $SMPATH:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/libmilter)
>
>dnl find libmilter.so in case we have shared libraries
>AC_PATH_PROG(LIBMILTERSO, libmilter.so, no, $MILTERLIB:$SMPATH:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/libmilter)
>
>
>should we add /lib64 and /usr/lib64 before /lib and /usr/lib,
>respectively?
>
>I changed the .spec file to include:
>
>    ./configure ... --with-libmilter=/usr/lib64 ...
>
>and it seems to build...  but it might make more sense to
>fix this in the configure.in file instead, as above.
>
>Opinions?
>
>Oh, and do we need the symbol file for /usr/bin/mimedefang
>to put into mimedefang-debuginfo-2.58?
>
>-Philip
>
>  
>

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