From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 14:46:58 CDT

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Wietse Venema:
> Nick Smith:
> > Attempting to upgrade to 2.4.0 on Solaris 10 gives:
> > postfix-install: nqmgr: not found
> > postfix-install: usr: not found
> > Updating ...
> > ln: Insufficient arguments (0)
> > Usage: ln [-f] [-n] [-s] f1 [f2]
> > ln [-f] [-n] [-s] f1 ... fn d1
> > ln [-f] [-n] -s d1 d2
> > make: *** [install] Error 1
>
> Portability (introduced 20070325): the fix for hardlinks and symlinks
> in postfix-install forgot to work around shells where "IFS=/ command"
> makes the IFS setting permanent. This is allowed by some broken
> standard, and affects Solaris. File: postfix-install.
>
> Wietse
>
> diff --exclude=man --exclude=html --exclude=README_FILES --exclude=.indent.pro --exclude=Makefile.in -bcr /var/tmp/postfix-2.5-20070328/HISTORY ./HISTORY

Oops, that was with whitespace ignored. Try this instead.

        Wietse

*** /var/tmp/postfix-2.4.0/postfix-install Sun Mar 25 16:44:02 2007
--- postfix-install Mon Apr 2 13:14:37 2007
***************
*** 686,707 ****
  
       # Hard link. Skip files that are not installed.
  
! h) eval echo $path | (IFS=/ read prefix file; test "$prefix" = "no" || (
! eval dest_path=$install_root$path
! check_parent $dest_path || exit 1
! eval source_path=$install_root$source
! compare_or_hardlink $source_path $dest_path || exit 1
! )) || exit 1
          continue;;
  
       # Symbolic link. Skip files that are not installed.
  
! l) eval echo $path | (IFS=/ read prefix file; test "$prefix" = "no" || (
! eval dest_path=$install_root$path
! check_parent $dest_path || exit 1
! eval source_path=$install_root$source
! compare_or_symlink $source_path $dest_path || exit 1
! )) || exit 1
          continue;;
  
       *) echo $0: Error: unknown type $type for $path in conf/postfix-files 1>&2
--- 686,713 ----
  
       # Hard link. Skip files that are not installed.
  
! h) eval echo $path | (
! IFS=/ read prefix file; IFS="$BACKUP_IFS"
! test "$prefix" = "no" || (
! eval dest_path=$install_root$path
! check_parent $dest_path || exit 1
! eval source_path=$install_root$source
! compare_or_hardlink $source_path $dest_path || exit 1
! )
! ) || exit 1
          continue;;
  
       # Symbolic link. Skip files that are not installed.
  
! l) eval echo $path | (
! IFS=/ read prefix file; IFS="$BACKUP_IFS"
! test "$prefix" = "no" || (
! eval dest_path=$install_root$path
! check_parent $dest_path || exit 1
! eval source_path=$install_root$source
! compare_or_symlink $source_path $dest_path || exit 1
! )
! ) || exit 1
          continue;;
  
       *) echo $0: Error: unknown type $type for $path in conf/postfix-files 1>&2

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