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Re: (Fwd) Re: sendmail on cygwin


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

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