| Carsten Neumann on Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:58:27 +0200 (CEST)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org) |
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| Re: building apsfilter without sendmail |
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002, David Syphers wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2, and trying to build apsfilter 7.2.2 from the ports. > It fails with > > looking for sendmail in /usr/sbin... > looking for sendmail in /usr/lib... > looking for sendmail in /sbin... > looking for sendmail in /bin... > looking for sendmail in /usr/sbin... > looking for sendmail in /usr/bin... > looking for sendmail in /usr/games... > looking for sendmail in /usr/local/sbin... > looking for sendmail in /usr/local/bin... > looking for sendmail in /usr/X11R6/bin... > looking for sendmail in /root/bin... > configure: error: no sendmail found; use --with-sendmail > > Why on earth is apsfilter looking for sendmail? Does sendmail have _anything_ > to do with printing? I'm building this on a workstation that gets all its > mail via POP, and do not use or build sendmail. Sendmail is needed for duplex notifying. > > The "use --with-sendmail" suggestion is mystifying as well. I have tried 'make > --with-sendmail=no' and 'make --with-sendmail=false', both of which result > in the same error. You just set the path to sendmail with that option. > > -David > > -- > When ideas fail, words come in very handy. > -Goethe > > Astronomy and Astrophysics Center > The University of Chicago Install sendmail before and remove it after installing apsfilter. Or put somewhere a fake `sendmail'. I don't know if that works. Just an idea. Carsten