X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/c988f1f4faa9f679f79beddf3c14676c5dcb8e28..9e4f596276eaa20045bdeb4bee2bf31438bfa0d3:/src/README diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index d14e87cd1..972d417c8 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.2 2005/01/04 10:00:42 ph10 Exp $ - THE EXIM MAIL TRANSFER AGENT VERSION 4 -------------------------------------- @@ -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