On Monday 25 April 2005 11:04 am, Trever Noggle wrote:
> Matt Brookings wrote:
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> > Tobias Orlamuende wrote:
> > | Am Montag, 25. April 2005 03:55 schrieb Trever Noggle:
> > |>I am not able to get courier-authlib to compile with vpopmail. i did
> > |>emerge courier-imap and emerge courier-authlib and it always dies at
> >
> > the
> >
> > |>same place. does anyone have any idea what is causing this.
> > |>
> > |>below is the place where it is failing.
> > |>
> > |>Linking libauthvchkpw.la
> > |>Linking authdaemontest
> > |>/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/
> > |>bin/
> > |>
> > |>ld: /var/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a(vpopmail.o): relocation
> >
> > R_X86_64_32S
> >
> > |>against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
> > |>recompile with -fPIC
> > |>/var/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> > |>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > |>make[2]: *** [libauthvchkpw.la] Error 1
> > |>make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > |>make[2]: Leaving directory
> > |>`/var/tmp/portage/courier-authlib-0.55/work/courier-authlib-0.55'
> > |>make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > |>make[1]: Leaving directory
> > |>`/var/tmp/portage/courier-authlib-0.55/work/courier-authlib-0.55'
> > |>make: *** [all] Error 2
> > |>
> > |>!!! ERROR: net-libs/courier-authlib-0.55 failed.
> > |>!!! Function src_compile, Line 100, Exitcode 2
> > |>!!! Compile problem
> > |>!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status
> > |>message.
> > |
> > | There was somewhere a thread containing courier-authlib and AMD64 with
> >
> > - -fPIC
> >
> > | around in the last days. It was called "compile "vpopmail" with
> >
> > -fPIC on
> >
> > | x86_64". I am not sure if these guys found a solution because on my
> >
> > AMD64 it
> >
> > | works without any problems (I am using an older version) and because
> >
> > of this
> >
> > | I didn't follow this thread...
> > | There is one thing which makes me thinking that the mentioned thread
> >
> > _could_
> >
> > | be the wrong one for you... This is based on one of the error-messages
> >
> > you
> >
> > | posted: " /var/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a: could not read symbols: Bad
> >
> > value"
> >
> > | Did you already install vpopmail? IMHO courier needs some
> >
> > vpopmail-libraries.
> >
> > | Because of the fact, that I installed the whole thing last time about
> >
> > 1 year
> >
> > | ago, I currently don't really remember the order of installations. But
> >
> > maybe
> >
> > | it's a point to have a look for...
> > | Btw: IMHO the ebuilds for qmail, vpopmail and courier provided by
> >
> > Gentoo
> >
> > | aren't very good. After having some troubles while using them, I
> >
> > installed
> >
> > | these thing completely by hand.
> > | <irony>
> > | Maybe you want to ask Jeremy Kitchen from Inter7 for his opinion about
> >
> > the
> >
> > | mentioned ebuilds.
> > | </irony>
> > | NB: Jeremy IS using Gentoo and very deep into qmail, vpopmail and these
> > | things...
> >
> > Yes. Jeremy got me using Gentoo as well. What you learn very quickly
> > is that ebuilds aren't so great for certian things. You should avoid
> > the qmail, vpopmail, etc ebuilds like the plague. As far as the courier
> > option, you probably should edit the Makefile, and add -fPIC to the
> > compiler options.
> >
> > Good luck!
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> If you do this without the ebuilds how do you avoid other items being
> installed such at ssmtp it appears that this is installed by default.
> you have to unmerge it in order to emerge qmail. how do you keep it
> from adding itself back inthere and potentially causing problems with
> doing an emerge --update --deep --newuse world ?
gentoo has a mechanism for 'faking' the installation of a package.
unmerge ssmtp and mark either qmail or ssmtp as installed
in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
-Jeremy
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