X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/c988f1f4faa9f679f79beddf3c14676c5dcb8e28..c99ce5c9a3ff397497892a741079be2edf385de2:/src/README diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index d14e87cd1..850a35460 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.2 2005/01/04 10:00:42 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.3 2005/08/30 10:07:58 ph10 Exp $ THE EXIM MAIL TRANSFER AGENT VERSION 4 -------------------------------------- @@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ 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 @@ -342,4 +348,4 @@ 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