On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 01:12:07PM +1300, Peter wrote:
> > Looking at makedefs I can see this is true, it is hard-coded to check in
> > /usr/lib. I can patch this myself but it would be nice to have this
> > modified to check /usr/lib64 as well, or maybe allow some variable to
> > passed in with /usr/lib64 to override /usr/lib?
>
> It looks as if also in addition to this issue versions of ICU prior to
> 4.6 do not contain the necessary symbols for this feature. CentOS 5 has
> version 3.6 of ICU, CentOS 6 has 4.2, so it looks like I cannot build in
> SMTPUTF8 support for those versions of CentOS, it will only work for
> CentOS 7.
Not entirely surprising. It took a while for IDNA 2008 to get
implemented in libraries and those libraries to get deployed. Now
it will take a while for applications using those libraries to
reach users.
Bleeding-edge Postfix may require a bleeding-edge base platform to
support the latest features. Platforms that are optimized for
stability may lack the necessary support.
--
Viktor.
