[postfix-users] pipe unable to parse dash flags in argv (resolved)

[Peter C. Lai]

> Subject: Re: [postfix-users] pipe unable to parse dash flags in argv (resolved) 
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>Peter C. Lai:                                                                   
> > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 09:45:12 -0400 (EDT)                                    
> > From: wietse at porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)                                    
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> > > I REPEAT: YOU HAVE LINKED POSTFIX WITH A BRAIN DAGAGED GNU GETOPT ROUTINE.  
> > >                                                                             
> > > DON'T DO THAT. POSTFIX REQUIRES THAT YOU USE THE SYSTEM GETOPT              
> > > ROUTINE.                                                                    
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> > This is not a problem I can easily resolve. What would you propose?           
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> Use the SYSTEM LIBRARY getopt() routine!                                        
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> DO NOT overrride system library routines with brain-damaged third               
> party versions.                                                                 
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> If you must use third-party libraries that override native methods              
> specify                                                                         
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>    -lc                                                                         
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> before                                                                          
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>    -lbraindamagedthirdpartylibrary                                             
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>        Wietse                                                                  
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> > I can see                                                                     
> > if it will build correctly without linking -L /usr/local/lib, because it WILL 
> > ALWAYS pick up the broken gnugetopt IF we are linking to /usr/local/lib AND   
> > the freebsd libgnugetopt port is installed. In any case, we must change the   
> > Makefile in order to get it to link to the correct getopt library, and doing  
> > this is beyond my scope of expertise.                                         
> >

I'm not the one who's overriding anything! The default ports build does this!
The question now is, do we change /ports/mail/postfix/Makefile to force -lc 
for this port, or is there a fundamental change required in bsd.port.mk?

(What I am saying is that it would be _really nice_ to get postfix to work
out-of-the-box instead of getting it borken by linking to libgnugetopt by 
default).
                                                                                
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Peter C. Lai
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
SenseLab | Research Assistant
http://cowbert.2y.net/