Re: gentoo

[Lang Hurst <lang tharin com>]

Sorry, I guess that my posting wasn't quite as informative as it could 
have been.  The problem is during ./configure.  The error is:

checking whether to use LDAP... no
checking whether to build ESMTP support... yes
checking for smtp_start_session in -lesmtp... no
configure: error: *** You enabled ESMTP but esmtp library is not found.

This is after building libesmtp from source.

-Lang

Brian Stafford wrote:

> On Mon 19:45, 22 April 2002 Lang Hurst wrote:
>
>> I've been a longtime balsa user and am a huge fan.  Recently I've 
>> tried out the gentoo Gnu/Linux distro.  I'm very impressed with it.  
>> I've managed to get most of my web apps and other configured and 
>> working. The only application that I can't get to work is Balsa.  
>> This is a HUGE hurdle for me.  I know the other MUA's out there, but 
>> I'm about to switch back to Debian due to this.  This is more of a 
>> gentoo problem than a balsa problem, but I'm getting no help on the 
>> gentoo side.  When running autoconf, it quits with a esmtp error.  
>> Yet I've installed libestmp both from the gentoo install (`emerge 
>> libesmtp`) and downloading the latest source and doing it by hand.  
>> Then trying to install balsa through the emerge tool, or by 
>> downloading the source, I still get the esmtp failure.  Does anyone 
>> know how to get around this? Thanks for any reply.
>
>
>
> I can't comment further because you don't specify the exact nature of 
> the ESMTP failure.
>
> If it is an interaction with the server try using the test program 
> that comes with libESMTP.  The --monitor logs all interaction with the 
> server.  If you have built balsa from source, enable debugging and it 
> will trace the interactions in the same way on stderr.
>
> If it is a link problem, try running balsa from an Xterm and see what 
> messages are written to the console.
>
> Brian