make buildworld ignoring NO_MAILWRAPPER=true

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Mon May 19 10:54:52 PDT 2003


I'm sending your followup to the list.

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:39:25PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Okay, I see where this is my mistake for not installing sendmail in 
> /usr/libexec/sendmail.
> 
> Sorry about that, and thank you for taking the time to write, etc.
> 
> I'm using 8.11.7, and I've been compiling it on my own.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Forrest
> 
> 
> At 08:29 PM 5/19/2003 +0300, you wrote:
> >On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:55:36PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> >>
> >> >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.
> >> [ ... ]
> >>
> >> That was my understanding, but it is not happening on my system
> >> (4.8-STABLE), the sendmail binary is being removed and symlinked to
> >> mailwrapper.   I don't want this to happen, and a few revisions ago this
> >> wasn't a problem.
> >>
> >lurker# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper/
> >lurker# make -DNO_MAILWRAPPER install DESTDIR=/tmp/test
> >/tmp/test/usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> >/tmp/test/usr/sbin/hoststat -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> >/tmp/test/usr/sbin/purgestat -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> >/tmp/test/usr/bin/newaliases -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> >/tmp/test/usr/bin/mailq -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> >/tmp/test/usr/sbin/mailwrapper -> /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
> >
> >If you complaining about /usr/sbin/sendmail being symlinked to
> >/usr/sbin/mailwrapper, it's not the real sendmail, the real one
> >lives in /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail, which the last one
> >above does handle.
> >
> >
> >Cheers,
> >--
> >Ruslan Ermilov          Sysadmin and DBA,
> >ru at sunbay.com           Sunbay Software AG,
> >ru at FreeBSD.org          FreeBSD committer,
> >+380.652.512.251        Simferopol, Ukraine
> >
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> 

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Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software AG,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer,
+380.652.512.251	Simferopol, Ukraine

http://www.FreeBSD.org	The Power To Serve
http://www.oracle.com	Enabling The Information Age
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