On 18 Jul 2012, at 06:17, Jim Wright wrote:
My make statement is very similar to the one on the above page, but
even using the one listed there, when I do the 'sudo make install',
I get hundreds of lines of errors, such as the following:
$ sudo make install
You shouldn't compile and install as the super-user. Build the
software with a regular (non-privileged) UserID and then maybe become
the super-user to install it. This is just good practice: nothing to
do wth the issue you reported. Yes, I know the link you provided says
do "sudo make install". It's wrong. Whoever (badly) wrote that web
article did get that basic principle right for the PCRE code though.
Sigh.
I think too you've compiled in lots of cruft you don't need or
understand. Your posting suggests you don't care about having a
postfix that uses SASL or MySQL or PCRE and are just blindly following
the recipe on this web page instead of reading the Postfix
documentation. [Someone who did know about these things would probably
have worked out what was behind the compiler warnings that prompted
your post.] Unless Apple have really screwed up Lion, compiling
postfix should "just work", just as it would on any decent BSD Unix
flavour. No secret sauce should be needed.
[src/util]
cc -DUSE_TLS -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DDEF_SERVER_SASL_TYPE=\"dovecot\" -
DDEF_COMMAND_DIR=\"/usr/local/sbin\" -DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=\"/usr/local/
etc/postfix\" -DDEF_DAEMON_DIR=\"/usr/local/libexec/postfix\" -
DHAS_PCRE -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_SSL -I/usr/include/openssl -
DHAS_MYSQL -I/usr/local/mysql/include -DBIND_8_COMPAT -DNO_NETINFO -
DRESOLVE_H_NEEDS_ARPA_NAMESER_COMPAT_H -DNO_KQUEUE -g -O -I. -
DMACOSX -c concatenate.c
concatenate.c:2:1: warning: '/*' within block comment [-Wcomment]
You can ignore this. It's a warning from the compiler, not an error.
The C compiler is whining about nested comments - "'/*' within block
comment". This is not a fatal error at all and the software is being
compiled just fine. These nested comments are used throughout the
postfix source code.
Apple might have made the MacOSX Lion compiler scream about warnings
related to comments in the source code, but this is unlikely. The -
Wcomment thing is the command-line option which makes the compiler
scream about nested comments without affecting the actual compilation.
However this command-line option (read the man page for gcc) isn't
shown above. Check your postfix Makefiles. They all should have a line
defining what warnings the compiler should and shouldn't whine about.
On mine, this is:
WARN = -Wall -Wno-comment -Wformat -Wimplicit -Wmissing-prototypes \
-Wparentheses -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wuninitialized \
-Wunused -Wno-missing-braces
Note the -Wno-comment entry which expressly tells the compiler to shut
up about nested comments. It looks likely you've not got this, most
probably because you didn't follow the postfix documentation.
