topic Re: problem compiling sendmail 8.13.6 in Operating System - HP-UX

problem compiling sendmail 8.13.6

Anders Gullberg — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:29:13 GMT

Hi all,

After latest sendmail security news I decided to install the latest version 8.13.6.
See output in file when I run sh Build -f /tmp/mail/sendmail/8.13.6/devtools/Site/site.config.m4

Anyone have a clue what is going wrong?
It created a directory with right platform (hp-ux 11.00) and when i go in to that directory/sendmail and run make install following output:
make install
if [ ! -d /etc/mail ]; then mkdir -p /etc/mail; else :; fi
../../devtools/bin/install.sh -c -o bin -g bin -m 444 helpfile /etc/mail/helpfile
cp /dev/null statistics
if [ ! -d /etc/mail ]; then mkdir -p /etc/mail; else :; fi
../../devtools/bin/install.sh -c -o root -g bin -m 0600 statistics /etc/mail/statistics
gcc -Ae -O -I. -I../../include -DNDBM -DNIS -DMAP_REGEX -DV4FS -DHPUX11 -c main.c
:4:2: missing '(' after predicate
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.

Thx in advance

//Anders

Re: problem compiling sendmail 8.13.6

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:09:32 GMT

Shalom Anders,

You should have checked to see if HP's sendmail depot at http://software.hp.com was vulnerable to the upgrade. Though marked for 11i it might install into 11.00.

Sendmail has been significantly tweaked to work right on HP-UX and you are MUCH better off with a depot version.

Some info from HP:
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayInstallInfo.do?productNumber=SMAIL813

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=977161

I'm not sure the depot will work, so here is a thread on compiler problems.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=825901

Make sure you have the necessary compilers and libraries installed into the OS pror to you compile.

SEP

Re: problem compiling sendmail 8.13.6

Anders Gullberg — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:46:23 GMT

Hi Steven,

I agree the easiest way is to install the latest depot 8.13.3 but I think the latest security issue is still there.

I dont know if HP has released a patch for that?

I do have gcc to use and that works better then the usual cc..

//Anders