Re: Zmailer 2.99.18 under Solaris 2.4

[Daniel R Ehrlich <ehrlich@cse.psu.edu>]

>> I am trying to compile Zmailer 2.99.18 under Solaris 2.4 with Gcc 2.7.0.
>> 
>> Found a problem with libmalloc/Makefile.in.  Some of the make variables have
>> spaces after the '=' sign, like
>> 
>>          RANLIB =           ranlib
>> 
>> This causes the Config.sed script to NOT replace this line, so on Soalris th
e
>> make would fail because ranlib would not be found.  My solution was to remov
e
>> the offending space.  Although, one could argue that the generation of the
>> Config.sed should be changed to allow such white space. 
>
>Do you have any ranlib in Solaris 2.4 ???
>I used to think that in SVR4 like systems it is not present at all.
>Whats more I succeded compiling Zmailer 2.99.16 under Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 with
>	RANLIB=:ranlib
>which implies not using ranlib.

Yes, I know there is no ranlib in system V land.  The problem was that I had

	RANLIB=echo

in the config file, but sed was not replacing the information when the Makefile
was generated because of the extra white space.

-- Dan

>
>> -- Dan Ehrlich
>> 
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