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 : On 23 Apr 1997, Robi Karp wrote:
 : 
 : >  : >  : > Did you get a copy of the Berkeley make?
 : >  : >  : Not needed - GNU make is fine.
 : >  : > Not on my copy it's not.  GNU make doesn't understand .include <xxx>
 : >  : > lines.
 : >  : Errm, you *did* run "makesendmail" instead of "make", didn't you?  From
 : [...]
 : > I said, I already did that.  It's not the compiling of sendmail that
 : > was worrying me, it was the installation, *THAT* is the reason I
 : 
 : Ahh, sorry - that wasn't clear from the above.  I'll restate then - that
 : GNU Make *is* okay for *building* Sendmail under Linux;  as for
 : installation, I can only guess since I install it manually.

Well, this is what I ended up doing.  I wasn't making out to be that
much harder than it is, and believe me, I was handcrafting sendmail
config files years ago.  The thing is, I'm annoyed at sendmail in
particular for using a different make to everyone else in the world.
You don't even need any funky make extension type stuff to make and
install sendmail.  As for the associated sendmail files, you don't
even need the help file, just the cf and binary.  I did place a bunch
of symlinks all over the place and centralise my sendmail
(/etc/sendmail).

You see one of the things I do is put together build environments and
it's not hard to do.  It's not hard to put together a bunch of
"normal" Makefiles that can install and make from the top.  When one
is putting together a system from scratch they want to be able to take
their sources, type make (or ./configure ; make :-) and let it run.
I've got a zillion things I want to install onto my system and it
annoys me when I have to stop to cater for the idiocyncracies of
individual programs.  I guess patience is not a virtue I posses.

Ok, I'll quite whinging now :-)

- Robi