[SA-exim] problems building sa-exim on ia64

[Marc MERLIN]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:51:27AM +0100, Patrick von der Hagen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just spent some time trying to build exim-src-rpms (taken from 
> ftp.exim.org) on one of my ia64-systems. Sadly, sa-exim caused problems.
> 
> Building sa-exim-4.1+cvs.so
> gcc -I../../src -I./eximinc -DDLOPEN_LOCAL_SCAN 
> -DSPAMASSASSIN_CONF=\"/etc/exim/sa-exim.conf\" 
> -DSPAMC_LOCATION=\"/usr/bin/spamc\" -O2 -Wall -shared -o 
> sa-exim-4.1+cvs.so sa-exim.c
> sa-exim.c:512:2: warning: #warning you should not worry about the "might 
> be clobbered by longjmp", see source
> /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cc37rnoO.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol 
> version
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Honestly, I have no idea why it says that, you'll need help from someone who
knows more about gcc than I do.

> The rpm-changelog mentions "Updated to sa-exim+cvs (2004-08-23 
> version)", so the changes vor sa-exim 4.1 (2004/08/16) that mention 
> "made hopefully 64 bit clean" and a mistake preventing sa-exim from 
> building should not apply in this case.
 
that patch wasn't to fix a build problem but a pointer problem in the code.
It shouldn't have affected this.
 
> Since my ia64-hardware will never run sa-exim (just internal 
> mail-routing, no connection to the "bad world outside"), this is 
> acutally no problem for me, so I won't investigate it further. However, 
> if you need more information of if I could try some patch I'll certainly 
> try to help.

Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Marc
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