Cannot rebuild Sendmail (with sasl2)

[Yuri Pankov]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:02:01PM +0000, brad davison wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am a new FreeBSD user (almost converted from Linux).  My company is 
> switching over mail servers from an (expensive and old) Red Hat server to 
> FreeBSD 6.2.
>
> I have gotten nearly everything configured and running smoothly except for 
> SMTP AUTH.
>
> Before I tried to build in the SASL2 stuff, I had done a full src-all 
> update via cvsup, and at that time, I was able to rebuild sendmail, and 
> rebuild the world.
>
> After installing the cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd port, I am now unable to rebuild 
> sendmail and/or The World.
>
> Whether I am rebuilding sendmail or the World, I get an error on 
> libsmutil.a.
> Specifically :
>
> make: don't know how to make 
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../lib/libsmutil/libsmutil.a. Stop
>
> after doing a 'find / -name libsmutil.a'
> libsmutil.a exists at: /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libsmutil/libsmutil.a
>
> I had googled the problem, and 2 years ago this guy had a similar problem.
> Sendmail with sasl2 build fails. *FIX*
> Richard Mcintyre rem at thecompanyonline.com
> Wed May 4 12:03:08 PDT 2005
>
> He pointed to some advice he had found on a mailing list, but did not 
> provide details.
>
> Any direction that could assist me would make me EXTREMELY grateful!
>
> Thanks!
> Brad

Brad,

You haven't provided details on how you are rebuilding sendmail, so I think this
link can be helpful:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html


HTH,
Yuri