[SA-exim] local_scan_path option error

[J. S. Greenfield]

No, I'm not saying the patch doesn't work, and I have not tried the 
patch on Solaris.  (Though I seem to recall a disclaimer that the patch 
had only been tested on Linux.)

To be clear, I'm talking about the patch to dynamically-load a 
local_scan module, here.  On Solaris I have statically-linked the 
sa-exim local_scan module, and found that it worked fine.

My erorr on the Linux install of the dynamic-link patch was that I tried 
to shortcut the process by copying my existing Solaris Local/Makefile, 
and then editing it -- not realizing that the patch was modifying the 
source for the makefile, adding options to handle the dynamic linking.  
So the error was entirely mine.

As for testing and Solaris...look, it's freely available, open source 
software.  Already having it tested and officially blessed for all 
systems would be wonderful, but should hardly be a bar to release.  I 
haven't seen comments that it doesn't work on Solaris, and you should 
certainly feel free to try it, and test it, to see whether it works, or 
requires adjustment.  The investment necessary to apply the patch and 
test whether it is working is pretty small.

Regards,

Jonathan

Steve Parker wrote:

>So are we saying that  the patch doesn't work?
>Surely before publishing a patch, it should be checked that it works, and
>works on Solaris (presumably the biggest MTA out there)
>
>I really want to believe,
>
>Steve.
>
>
>Steve Parker
>steve at steve-parker.org
>
>On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, J. S. Greenfield wrote:
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>>I think I've located the problem...didn't realize that EDITME got
>>patched, and had already copied and modified it in the Local directory. 
>>Recompiling now....
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