sendmail-src RPM

[James Kosin]

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Alexander Dalloz wrote:

|Am Do, den 28.04.2005 schrieb Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina um 21:00:
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|>>I'm trying to build a new package for sendmail.
|>>Anyone know what the sendmail-8.12.9-dynamic.patch suppose to
accomplish?
|>>I see it wants to modify a Makefile and it looks like it removes
|>>strerror.c form the list.... but there are too many files listed there
|>>to be exactly sure.
|>
|>Google tells it is a security patch:
|>http://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=9797
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|
|That is something different and fixed long ago.
|
|>May be you should also ask on the sendmail Mailing list?
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|http://www.fiveanddime.net/sendmail-8.13.4-files-and-documentation/libsm/strerror.c.html
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|https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-cvs-commits/2005-April/msg00586.html
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|Frankly, I don't know what's the reason for removing strerror.c from the
|Sendmail building process.
|
|Alexander
|
|
Thanks Alexander,

I couldn't find a connection between the security patch and this patch.

This one patches `/devtools/OS/Linux' with an `-fpie' option for all
the `confOPTIMIZE' defines, then takes out the one file strerror.c
from the /libsm/Makefile.m4 file.

I can only guess that the -fpie option doesn't need the strerror.c
file in the library for libsm.  Or FC1 already has a library file
elsewhere that has a strerror() function.

James

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