X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/0f4f2a8848bf9e6bb323ffb6a5581b088a940fd0..c2b063d407d37f6d813cdc4bc9d6a346f071a471:/src/README diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index 53a9b4a9a..972d417c8 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.1 2004/10/06 14:12:40 ph10 Exp $ - THE EXIM MAIL TRANSFER AGENT VERSION 4 -------------------------------------- -Copyright (c) 1995 - 2004 University of Cambridge. +Copyright (c) 1995 - 2005 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", @@ -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