Bug 309281

Summary: RFE: add libmilter shared library
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Carl Roth <roth>
Component: sendmailAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Patch for sendmail.spec to enable shared libmilter
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Patch for libmilter Makefile.m4 to enable shared library
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Supplemental build rules for shared libraries in sendmail
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Patches to sendmail SRPM contents none

Description Carl Roth 2007-09-27 16:34:01 UTC
Description of problem:

I'd like to use pymilter (Python libmilter API) under Fedora Core, and the build
requires a dynamically-linked libmilter.  The current sendmail build is static
only (specifically, PIE).

I'm attaching patches for the sendmail SRPM to enable a shared library for
libmilter; please comment on whether you think this is appropriate for inclusion
into Fedora Core.  The patches are based on old instructions for solving the
same problem under FreeBSD.

Note that the patch as I've implemented it does not alter the build rules for
the rest of sendmail (including libmilter.a) so that the PIE attributes are
preserved.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

sendmail-8.14.1-2

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Comment 1 Carl Roth 2007-09-27 16:34:01 UTC
Created attachment 208601 [details]
Patch for sendmail.spec to enable shared libmilter

Comment 2 Carl Roth 2007-09-27 16:35:04 UTC
Created attachment 208621 [details]
Patch for libmilter Makefile.m4 to enable shared library

Comment 3 Carl Roth 2007-09-27 16:35:43 UTC
Created attachment 208661 [details]
Supplemental build rules for shared libraries in sendmail

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 02:30:50 UTC
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Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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Comment 6 Carl Roth 2008-06-17 16:07:20 UTC
I'd still like to see this change for F9.  I'm attach a latest patches to get it
working for sendmail-8.14.2-4.


Comment 7 Carl Roth 2008-06-17 16:08:29 UTC
Created attachment 309631 [details]
Patches to sendmail SRPM contents

Comment 8 Miroslav Lichvar 2009-01-20 18:54:52 UTC
*** Bug 479325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Miroslav Lichvar 2009-01-20 18:56:22 UTC
sendmail-8.14.3-4.fc11 now has shared libmilter. Thanks.