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Problem with installation of procmail v3.15.1

2001-03-08 10:55:03
I just downloaded and installed procmail-3.15.1, and had a problem installing 
it on Solaris 2.7.  The "make" went fine, as did the "make install".  After 
that, I got no mail, no log entries...nothing.

I finally tracked it down in a Mail Delivery Notification message:

   ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' '&&p=/home/mcmaster/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -f-||exit
75#mcmaster"
    (expanded from: <mcmaster(_at_)falcon(_dot_)stortek(_dot_)com>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
ld.so.1: /home/mcmaster/bin/procmail: fatal: libgen.so.1: open failed: No
such file or directory
451 mailer prog died with signal 11
Arguments: sh -c IFS=' '&&p=/home/mcmaster/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p
-f-||exit 75#mcmaster
"|IFS=' '&&p=/home/mcmaster/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -f-||exit
75#mcmaster"... Deferred
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 3 days old

Procmail could not find libgen.so.1.  I removed the "-lgen" from the 
"SEARCHLIBS", recompiled and all my mail came flooding in.  Note this cames 
after a warning not to touch things below unless "you *think* you know what 
you are doing".  I didn't, so did not change anything.

This was fairly easy to find and fix, but isn't there a way for the install 
to verify the existence of these files rather than silently generating a 
module that won't run?
-- 
Jim McMaster
mailto:mcmaster(_at_)falcon(_dot_)stortek(_dot_)com


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