Re: Building balsa on Tru64 UNIX (without pspell)

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Mon, 26 November 20:25 Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:43:09AM +0000, Brian Stafford wrote:
> > >Whe website mentions that pspell and libesmtp are absolutely required.
> > >After spendig houres to get libesmtp compiled,
> > LibESMTP is not part of balsa.  Please report this on the libesmtp-devel
> > mailing list (subscribers only).
> Sorry. I am not motivated to subscribe to an other mailing list. I am
> subscribed to enough now. ;-)

Please do not cc libesmtp specific issues to the balsa list, libESMTP is an 
independent project.  Either report the issues to me or subscribe to the 
correct list.  I do not wish to abuse the Balsa list with issues not related 
to balsa.

> Some problems where solved when I tried to build 0.8.7. (When I downloaded
> all the source for balsa 0.8.6 was the current version. Most of the
> time that I needed to get libesmtp compiled was diging through the
> system include files...)

The output of ./configure and the contents of config.log are the most useful 
things when configuration fails.  If compilation fails, the compiler output is 
useful.  This is always the case for programs maintained with GNU autoconf and 
it certainly applies to balsa as well as libESMTP.

> Also this was addresed to the people that wrote the balsa website.
> 
> > LibESMTP is written for a strict Posix environment and compiles with -ansi
> > and -pedantic when using GCC.
> -ansi and -pedantic are the first problem: The OSF1 cc does not have these
> options.

That should not be a problem, the configure script should supply them only to 
gcc.  If it gives compilers other than gcc -ansi and -pedantic that is a bug.  
In any case, ./configure --disable-more-warnings will stop these parameters 
being passed to the compiler.  ./configure --help will tell you this.  Again, 
same applies to balsa.

> > I think you've totally missed the point about libESMTP and mail submission.
> 
> My point of view is simply:
> Why build and install libesmtp when I will use "localhost:smtp" what is
> mostly the same like "./configure --without-esmtp"?

These are totally different things. Really.

Brian Stafford