On 13 Jun 2002, at 16:08, Andrey V. Pevnev boldly uttered: > Hello, Philip! > > This is a forwarded message > From: Stephane Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, June 13, 2002, 3:40:18 PM > Subject: [Mimedefang] libsm.a and libsmutil.a > > ===8<==============Original message text=============== > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:28:50AM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Andrey V. Pevnev wrote: > > > > > >They are internal build libraries and not needed by anything else. > > > >libmilter applications do not require them. > > > > I'll have to test it. I can only test on Linux and Solaris, but I'll > > check. > > I once saw something interesting about this topic in J-chkmail's > mailing-list (the post was from Jose : j-chkmail's author) > > - before version 8.12, libmilter used the strlcpy function > strlcpy (part of libsmutil), hence the need of this lib for linking. > > - in versions 8.12.0 et 8.12.1, the sm_snprintf function was used > instead (defined in libsm). > > - since version 8.12.2, sendmail uses the snprintf function defined > in the standard libc... > > so now (sendmail >= 8.12.2) these libs are not needed to compile > Milter appplications ... > > best regards, > > SL/ > -- > --- > Stephane Lentz / Alcanet International - Internet Services
Thanks for that info. Clearly Sendmail has their work cut out for them in regards to documentation - it's a mess. (ie the info above should be in the Sendmail README file, I would think) I'd offer to help but my knowledge of Sendmail is so rudimentary I'd probably hurt more than help.. Phil -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
