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| Notes on building SpamAssassin on VMS |
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| - Firstly, do not do a default build; this will build a set of C components |
| which currently use Autoconf to determine their dependencies, to build |
| "spamc". |
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| Instead, run |
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| perl Makefile.PL |
| make spamassassin |
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| If you want "spamc" I suggest you provide a replacement header and |
| binaries.mk we can use, then we can special-case VMS in Makefile.PL to use |
| those instead of running autoconf. |
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| - The generated Makefile.PL no longer relies on UNIX input/output |
| redirection; /bin/sh "for" loops; @foo "silent" directives; backslashed |
| continuations; or [ -f foo ] || somecommand conditionals. At least, not in |
| our code any more ;) |
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| - There are still some UNIX paths inside the generated Makefile: |
| "rules/local.cf" for example. Suggestions on how to work around this |
| neatly inside the Makefile syntax while gaining VMS compatibility would be |
| welcome! |
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| - "make test" will probably rely heavily on UNIX-style input and output |
| redirection, so will probably still fail. |
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| - bug 1099 in the SA Bugzilla is being used to track progress. |
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| http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=1099 |
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