sendmail- 8.13.1 installation failing from /usr/ports

Mark admin at asarian-host.net
Wed Aug 11 07:06:36 PDT 2004


Noah wrote:

> sendmail-8.13.1 installation failing
> freeBSD-4.9
>
> well I deinstalled postfix and now trying to reinstall the
> sendmail-sasl version on the box again and its failing.
>
> -- snip ---
> ../t-shm
> shminit failed: File exists
> 1..bad! t-shm.c:181 cnt <= MAX_CNT
> add -DSM_CONF_SHM=0 to confENVDEF in devtools/Site/site.config.m4
> and start over.
> 1 of 2 tests completed successfully
> *** 1 error in test! ***
> 1..bad! t-shm.c:252 r == 0
> add -DSM_CONF_SHM=0 to confENVDEF in devtools/Site/site.config.m4
> and start over.
> 0 of 1 tests completed successfully
> *** 1 error in test! ***
> *** Error code 1
> --- snip ---
>
> any clues please?

Since sendmail 8.13.1 is essentially the same (installation-wise) as 8.13.0,
I just used the 8.13.0 port install to compile 8.13.1 (re-tarred the .tar.gz
file), as soon as 8.13.1 came out. Not ideal, perhaps, but it worked nicely.

- Mark



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