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Thanks, aye?

Dhu

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:17:09 +0200
"Omar Polo" <o...@omarpolo.com> wrote:

> Hello Duncan,
> 
> Duncan Patton a Campbell <campb...@neotext.ca> wrote:
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> > Howdy all?
> > 
> > I have the following sw/hw config
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > and would like to test/configure OpenSMTPD before upgrading the rest 
> > of the system (old&slow runs on 32G CF card).
> > 
> > But attempts to compile the OpenSMTP port fail:
> >
> > [...]
> > 
> > Trying to build opensmtpd 7.7 on  a sparc64 running OpenBSD 7.3 I get the 
> > following:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > So OpenSMTP 7.3 is the latest version that will compile.
> > 
> > Is this to be expected?  
> 
> 
> Yes, this is expected.  To build OpenSMTPD X.Y you need to be running
> OpenBSD X.Y (in this case, 7.7).  This is the same for all the other
> components of the system.
> 
> Since OpenSMTPD is developed in base, it make use immediately of the
> new features available in the OS.  In this particular case, during the
> 7.5-7.7 period, several improvements were done to the imsg APIs (in
> libutil), and so a newer OpenSMTPD won't compile in previous releases
> of the OS.
> 
> There may be "hackish" ways to work around this issue, but I'd
> reccomend to just test your setup on a different box running 7.7, it's
> the simpler and the intended way to test it.
> 
> (that said, the latest OpenSMTPD-portable release *should* compile and
> work on OpenBSD as well, and you might be able to compile it on a
> previous OpenBSD release, but I'd like to make sure that it's not
> really a supported configuration and you still may have to play around
> with the configure knobs to make it behave exactly as the base
> OpenSMTPD.)
> 
> > RSVP Thanks,
> > 
> > Duncan (Dhu) Campbell
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Omar Polo
> 
> 


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 *A mari ad mari ad mari*

  Duncan Patton a Campbell

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