make buildworld ignoring NO_MAILWRAPPER=true

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Mon May 19 02:23:06 PDT 2003


On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 05:13:19AM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Correct, despite that setting in my /etc/make.conf, it continues to 
> overwrite sendmail and my other links to sendmail (mailq, newaliases, etc.) 
> to that of the mailwrapper program.   It's very annoying, and thus I 
> presume there is something broken somewhere in the installation process 
> that does not consult the settings in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> If there's anything else I can provide, please let me know, and thanks for 
> responding.
> 
Don't get it?  mailq, newaliases, etc. are ALWAYS symlinked to mailwrapper.
But if NO_MAILWRAPPER is also set, the mailwrapper itself is symlinked to
the real sendmail binary, so everything works correctly.

> At 09:20 AM 5/19/2003 +0300, you wrote:
> >On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:48:21PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> >> For the last few system builds, I've noticed that the variable in
> >> /etc/make.conf NO_MAILWRAPPER=true is being ignored, resulting in my
> >> sendmail (different than stock version) being overwritten.
> >>
> >> This applies to 4.8-STABLE; is this a known issue.
> >>
> >Could you please be more specific?  NO_MAILWRAPPER controls
> >the mailwrapper(8), and is not to sendmail(8) installation.
> >If NO_MAILWRAPPER is set, the mailwrapper is just a
> >symlink to /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail.
> >
> >So, what do you see broken here?

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