Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: >>It took over four weeks for me to do this very easy task on our CentOS 6 >>system. Fortunately, they had already installed some more modern >>compilation tools, but not all. >> >>1. Ask IT to install git. Go to CCB. Install. >>2. Compile, notice that a library is missing. >>3. Ask IT to install library. Go to CCB. Install. >>4. Go to 2. > > We're in a tough spot here. First, I'm looking over our library > dependency list ... it's should be pretty standard. Well, there is that > whole Linux lossage about "development" libraries, but we can't really > help that. I mean, if you look at the list, we should only depend on > > - dbm > - termcap/termlib > - iconv (optional) > - readline (optional)
ncurses and libssl (for sasl and tls) come to mind as well. > That's pretty basic. I am surprised that you had to ask IT to install > that much extra stuff. Keep in mind that CCBs are once a week, so it's not like it was a lot of libraries. Building 1.6 on CentOS 6... ./configure (same as before, but without --enable-lockdir) completes. Found iconv, did not find readline. make succeeds. make check passes. make install works. Smoke test: inc (via MH-E)...check comp (via MH-E)...check send (via MH-E)...check rcvstore...check Damn, good job folks! Now I can go back to not worrying about locking (although I was oblivious that I had to worry about it before). -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
