On Mon, 17 Nov 2025, Cyborg via Exim-users wrote:
Am 17.11.25 um 15:24 schrieb Jeremy Harris via Exim-users:
On 2025/11/17 1:38 PM, Tim Jackson via Exim-users wrote:
Is it possible that this originates in the Exim upstream itself? I'm not
very familiar with the whole Exim build system, and haven't tried building
4.99 myself but at a casual glance, module loading and drtables.c has had
a revamp and seems to now try to dlopen() a file named
"<modname>_lookup.so" for lookups (e.g. mysql_lookup.so), which is new,
but lookups/Makefile still
refers to (for example) mysql.so. Maybe I'm misunderstanding though.
Nope. The project build sequence results in "<modname>_lookup.so" *in a
different directory*
(along with .so files for any routers, transports, authenticators and other
misc components
which the build config has been set to build as loadbable modules.
The file <modname>.so is a precursor, and they should not have been trying
to use it.
I think this is a mistake in the Fedora package build. However, it is a
step not well
detailed in Exim's documentation so I've added a bit of descriptions in
EDITME file (which
becomes a makefile).
in case anyone else wants to auto test for such an issue, a have made a
minimal config for a testcase:
You need a working database, but you don't need a sql setup in that db except
a valid login.
You DO NOT need a running exim to have that testcase working.
exim.conf:
#
# minimum test config for db access
#
primary_hostname = testfarm.yourproject.edu
keep_environment = PATH
message_logs = false
hide mysql_servers = localhost/<DBNANE>/<DBUSER>/<DBPASSWORD>
/exim.conf
a working example:
# exim -be '${lookup mysql {SELECT 1}}'
1
a none working example:
# exim -be '${lookup mysql {SELECT * from mail_config LIMIT 1}}'
Failed: unknown lookup type "mysql"
Do you think you can turn that into a patch for the exim test suite
- instructions at Exim/exim/test/README.
I can help, or I could do it but I don't have Fedora to test the test :-)
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
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