Subject: Re: postfix on Yellow Dog Linux: comment & question
From: Wietse Venema (wietse@porcupine.org )
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 05:21:49 MDT
Chris Pepper:
> At 7:31 PM -0400 2001/07/05, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >Chris Pepper:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> On Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 (PowerPC), postfix requires the
> >> kernel-headers RPM for sys/types.h. This should probably be in
> >> LINUX_README.
> >
> >I think this is a defect in Yellow Dog Linux. If they provide a
> >development environment with sys/types.h then they should provide
> >all files needed by sys/types.h. I have never used a UNIX system
> >with incomplete sys/types.h dependencies.
>
> I don't see that this is a defect -- I didn't specify a
> development environment in the base install, but did add the RPMs I
> knew I'd need (gcc, make, etc.). I did not know I'd need
> kernel-headers for postfix -- I haven't needed it for any of the
> smaller program I've compiled so far.
In order to compile Postfix, you need a software development
environment: make, cc, header files, object libraries, etcetera.
If you prefer not to install a software development environment,
then don't bother and look for pre-compiled packages instead.
Wietse
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