Sendmail upgrade advice

[Rob]

Hi,

Thanks for the advice. Although convoluted, I had managed to read through
some of the documentation and tried to perform the first steps of the
install (as you kindly described below).

However, the install failed on the first step of sh Build in the sendmail
directory. This is why I was asking for help because of this error I
received at sh Build.

build: Can't open build: No such file or directory
%sh Build
Configuration: pfx=, os=FreeBSD, rel=4.4-RELEASE, rbase=4,
rroot=4.4-RELEASE, arch=i386, sfx=, variant=optimized
Using M4=/usr/bin/m4
Creating
/usr/home/rob/sendmail-8.13.0/obj.FreeBSD.4.4-RELEASE.i386/sendmail
using
/usr/home/rob/sendmail-8.13.0/devtools/OS/FreeBSD sed: 1: "s/
//g
": unterminated substitute pattern
sed: 1: "s/
//g
": unterminated substitute pattern
ERROR: /usr/bin/m4 failed; You may need a newer version of M4, at least
as new as System V or GNU

It was also suggested that I build my own ports tree but I don't really have
the disk space for that. Is it possible to build a ports tree with just one
port perhaps? If so, how do I go about doing that?

Thanks again.



-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Bailey [mailto:mrb at bmyster.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 4:42 PM
To: epilogue
Cc: freebsd at computersthatrock.com; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Sendmail upgrade advice


hope this helps

im going to use 8.12.10 as an example....i think the instructions are
referring to this: when you unpack sendmail-8.x.x  it makes a dir called
sendmail.8.x.x (whatever the version name)

cd into that dir. theres a INSTALL file that pretty much says everthign i
said here....but  oh well...who reads instructions anyway

you will also see a dir oddly enough called "sendmail" cd into that
....that is where you run the
sh Build

then it wants you to go to the cf/cf dir  todo so do:
cd ../cf/cf
........