X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/c988f1f4faa9f679f79beddf3c14676c5dcb8e28..294f47fdbcbf5534a266d9abfcd1ccb873aff891:/src/README diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index d14e87cd1..225295efb 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.2 2005/01/04 10:00:42 ph10 Exp $ - THE EXIM MAIL TRANSFER AGENT VERSION 4 -------------------------------------- -Copyright (c) 1995 - 2005 University of Cambridge. +Copyright (c) 1995 - 2018 University of Cambridge. See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. There is a book about Exim by Philip Hazel called "The Exim SMTP Mail Server", @@ -16,7 +14,7 @@ from Exim 3, though the basic structure and philosophy remains the same. The older book may be helpful for the background, but a lot of the detail has changed, so it is likely to be confusing to newcomers. -There is a web site at http://www.exim.org; this contains details of the +There is a website at https://www.exim.org; this contains details of the mailing list exim-users@exim.org. A copy of the Exim FAQ should be available from the same source that you used @@ -49,7 +47,7 @@ Please see the documentation files for full instructions on how to build, install, and run Exim. For straightforward installations on operating systems to which Exim has already been ported, the building process is as follows: -. Ensure that the top-level Exim directory (e.g. exim-4.40) is the current +. Ensure that the top-level Exim directory (e.g. exim-4.80) is the current directory (containing the files and directories listed above). . Edit the file called src/EDITME and put the result in a new file called @@ -80,6 +78,12 @@ to which Exim has already been ported, the building process is as follows: comments in exim_monitor/EDITME about the values set therein, but in this case everything can be defaulted if you wish. +. If your system is not POSIX compliant by default, then you might experience + fewer problems if you help point the build tools to the POSIX variants. For + instance, on Solaris: + + PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH make SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh + . Type "make". This will determine what your machine's architecture and operating system are, and create a build directory from those names (e.g. "build-SunOS5-sparc"). Symbolic links are created from the build directory @@ -327,7 +331,7 @@ also need to add a new alias definition: "alias utf8 utf-8". 2. For some strange reason make will fail at building "exim_dbmbuild" when called the first time. However simply calling make a second time will solve - the problem. Alternatively, run "make makfile" and then "make". + the problem. Alternatively, run "make makefile" and then "make". ******* IMPORTANT FOR ULTRIX USERS ******* @@ -342,4 +346,4 @@ GNU/Hurd doesn't (at the time of writing, June 1999) have the ioctls for finding out the IP addresses of the local interfaces. You therefore have to set local_interfaces yourself. Otherwise it will treat only 127.0.0.1 as local. -Philip Hazel +Philip Hazel