I'm working on porting SpamAssassin to EIMS. So far, the MacOS X plugin seems to work, it embeds perl, launchs the interpreter and tests every incoming e-mail.
But the majority of EIMS users are running the PPC or even the 68K version of it. So I'm looking into doing the same for at least PPC (to start) with MacPerl. The PPC version would normally even be simpler since I don't have to use a framework to bridge to Mach-O (ah, the joys of MacOS X runtime architecture).
I have two issues.
a) on unix, installing SpamAssassin leads to the compilation of some native (C) code. It doesn't on MacPerl, but the installation seemed to have completed successfully. What am I supposed to do to get this native code?
b) I have the required headers to compile my plug-in from MacPerl, but I cannot find the library with the perl interpreter I'm supposed to link with.
For the first issue, I think I have to somewhat compile the library independantly, I vaguely recall having done so for a friend with libgd. It was a complete nightmare, but he kept (I hope) the PerlStub file. Is it the library I'm supposed to link with? (I know I'm a dreamer).
Apparently, the native code in SpamAssassin is for bayesian training and since I don't plan to make this feature available as EIMS is a mail server and filtering is impersonnal there, I might be able to escape this (here again, I'm probably dreaming).
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