> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > > > a build-depend on sendmail should do the job, > > > > That would be a bad solution, IMHO. > > > > AFAIK, sendmail does not provide any .h files against which alpine > > should compile, so if there is something in alpine build that you want > > to be different, it is almost sure that there will be a way to achieve > > it without a build-depends on sendmail. > > All it does is have the ./configure (or equivalent) check for the existence of > a sendmail and enable this by default if there is one. So I figured > build-depending on it would be reasonable, but if you think using the > ./configure option is better then I can do that.
You can hardcode the check and make it think sendmail is available, even if it's not. It would be a hack, but not bigger than a build-depends on sendmail. sendmail is a MTA, you should not really need it on the build machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
