On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Chris Bunch <[email protected]> wrote: > If anyone has experience of compiling & installing Exim on Linux your > insights would be invaluable. > > I have been running Exim (and other servers) on Mac OS X for many years but > am now having to migrate them to a cloud system on Linode. I have always > compiled from source on Mac OS X rather than using packages (there weren't > any back then, and it 'just worked'). I can see that the issue on Linux is > going to be where the various libraries are (or aren't), for example (from > 'make'): > > In file included from exim.h:490:0, > from exim_dbmbuild.c:31: > dbstuff.h:371:18: fatal error: gdbm.h: No such file or directory > > Yes there are Exim packages available which will install in a breeze but, you > know, I prefer to understand what I am installing and where. Any advice or > pointers to relevant docs would be appreciated.
Thanks to all of you who have responded very helpfully. The db issue was solved by apt-get install libdb5.1-dev I am nearly there now and can compile successfully, but for mysql support: lookups/lookups.a(mysql.o): In function `mysql_tidy': mysql.c:(.text+0x146): undefined reference to `mysql_close' lookups/lookups.a(mysql.o): In function `perform_mysql_search': mysql.c:(.text+0x397): undefined reference to `mysql_init' ... mysql.c:(.text+0x70b): undefined reference to `mysql_free_result' lookups/lookups.a(mysql.o): In function `mysql_version_report': mysql.c:(.text+0x716): undefined reference to `mysql_get_client_info' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [exim] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cb/source/exim-4.84/build-Linux-x86_64' make: *** [all] Error 2 The Linode distro is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have libmysqlclient-dev installed, and mysql-server. I suspect my Makefile is not quite right: I am finding the syntax around EXTRALIBS & INCLUDE rather opaque but I expect I'll get there. Yes I could (and may well) just go with 'sudo apt-get build-dep exim4'. That sounds a good plan but maybe I'd learn less that way (and would it deal with mysql?). I may also venture into IRC. Thanks again Chris -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
