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Subject: Re: Compiling Postfix for multiple architectures in same source tree?
From: Lars Hecking (lheckingnmrc.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 11:07:23 CDT

Ralf Hildebrandt writes:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 09:36:17AM -0500, Mark D. Roth wrote:
>
> > On a related note, I just built Postfix for the first time last night,
> > and I was wondering if there would be interest in using GNU autoconf
> > for the build-time configuration.
>
> Quick! Luckily Wietse is not yet in the office (?) -- you might still have
> time to put your asbestos suit on before he flames you :)
>
> The reason there's no autoconf in it is because with autoconf you cannot
> assure that the program will work on the platform although it compiled...

 That's a phony argument, at best. Show us some evidence. That said,
 I'm familiar enough with auto{conf|make} to understand that it's not
 everyone's first choice :)

 Nevertheless, I think that the current make system takes care of
 system dependencies well enough.

 I have thrown together a quick hack, relative to 19993112-pl06, which allows
 building outside the source dir. It is based on the bind-8 makefiles. Seems
 to work well, but I didn't try installing (as that requires root :)

 As I didn't want to post it here, and have no ftp site to put it on,
 would someone else want to make it available for web and ftp? Otherwise,
 I'll just email it out on request (14k; 2k as .gz).