[SA-exim] Exim 4.62 with localscan_dlopen_exim_4.20 patch builds with an execption (OSX 10.4.6 PPC)

Ross Boylan ross at biostat.ucsf.edu
Tue Sep 5 12:30:38 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 14:14 -0400, Kurt Zurich wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Patched Exim 4.62 sources with localscan_dlopen_exim_4.20 patch.
> 
> "make" builds the binaries, except at the end, gcc complains that:
> 
> "powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: unrecognized option '-rdynamic'"
> 
> The patch file contains the following comment:
> 
> "+# On systems which support dynamic loading of shared libraries, Exim can
> +# load a local_scan function specified in its config file instead of having
> +# to be recompiled with the desired local_scan function."
> 
> Do I understand gcc's exception correctly to mean that sa-exim cannot be
> loaded dynamically under OSX?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
That seems unlikely; OSX has dynamic loading.  However, the option names
are somewhat idiosyncratic; the error just means that option name is
unrecognized by your gcc.
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