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Re: (Fwd) Re: sendmail on cygwin
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: sendmail on cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:24:03 -0500
- References: <20001201004446.16123.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:44:46PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:20:29PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> ><30 Nov 2000, 15:42 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub:>
>> >< Re: (Fwd) Re: sendmail on cygwin >
>> >
>> >> Huh? sendmail, of course. You'll have to adapt an existing sendmail
>> >> configuration to cygwin.
>> >
>> >Which OS is the nearest to cygwin, what do you think?
>> >
>> >Linux? BSDi? Sinix? Ultrix? GNU? HPUX?
>>
>> I don't know. Linux, I suppose.
>>
>> This is one of those cases, where you need to play around to figure what
>> is best. We can't do the port for you.
>>
>> >I tried at first to adapt Gnu config, but it is not so easy.
>> >
>> >Maybe WINNT, which is not included in the ostype dir, but it is supported by
>>
>> >configure, because they have done a windows port.
>>
>> WINNT != UNIX. Cygwin == UNIX.
>>
>
>You may want to `export CC=gcc -mno-win32' when you get to configuring. Is
>GNU's autoconf being used to manage the package?
>
>If yes:
> CC='gcc -mno-win32' /path/to/source/configure
> make
>should help you get started.
The last time I built sendmail, it didn't use autoconf.
cgf