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[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-04-03 22:05, "Oleg V. Nauman" <oleg at reis.zp.ua> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:18:18PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
>>>> This happened on one of my -stable boxes lately when doing a upgrade
>>>> using buildworld.  For some (unknown) reason m4 bombed out and created
>>>> an empty .cf file.
>>>>
>>>> I fixed it by doing something similar to what was done above, although
>>>> why m4 failed is a mystery....
>>>
>>> 	Some patch:
>>>
>>> --- /usr/src/etc/sendmail/Makefile.orig Wed Apr  2 23:51:19 2003
>>> +++ /usr/src/etc/sendmail/Makefile Wed Apr  2 23:51:50 2003
>>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>>>  # @(#)Makefile 8.19 (Berkeley) 1/14/97
>>>  # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/Makefile,v 1.21 2002/07/29 09:40:06 ru Exp $
>>>
>>> -M4=          m4
>>> +M4=          /usr/bin/m4
>>>  CHMOD=       chmod
>>>  ROMODE=        444
>>>  RM=          rm -f
>>
>> This shouldn't be necessary, since m4 is in the path in buildworld, is
>
> 	installworld, you meant?

Actually no.  One of the last things done during buildworld is (wrapped
to fit under 80 columns):

: ===> etc/sendmail
: rm -f freebsd.cf
: (cd /usr/src/etc/sendmail &&  \
:   m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/  \
:   /usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 freebsd.mc) \
:   > freebsd.cf
: chmod 444 freebsd.cf
: rm -f /etc/mail/gothmog.cf
: (cd /usr/src/etc/sendmail &&  \
:   m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/   \
:   /usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 \
:   /etc/mail/gothmog.mc) > /etc/mail/gothmog.cf
: chmod 444 /etc/mail/gothmog.cf
: rm -f /etc/mail/gothmog.submit.cf
: (cd /usr/src/etc/sendmail &&  \
:   m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/   \
:   /usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 \
:   /etc/mail/gothmog.submit.mc) > /etc/mail/gothmog.submit.cf
: chmod 444 /etc/mail/gothmog.submit.cf