Re: exim build failure.

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 at 20:54, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 08:50:25PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > Getting exim build failures ever since the last version update due to:
> >
> > /bin/sh ../scripts/Configure-os.h
> > gcc -DMACRO_PREDEF macro_predef.c
> > gcc -c -O2 -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include -fPIC -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> > -DMACRO_PREDEF -I/usr/ -I/usr/pkg/include -o macro_predef.o macro_predef.c
> > In file included from exim.h:535:0,
> >                  from macro_predef.c:12:
> > hintsdb.h:465:4: error: #error Berkeley DB version 1 is no longer supported
> >  #  error Berkeley DB version 1 is no longer supported
> >     ^~~~~
> > hintsdb.h:755:15: error: unknown type name 'EXIM_DB'
> >  static inline EXIM_DB *
> >                ^~~~~~~
> >
> > So it looks like exim no longer supports the built in libdb. I can see that
> > there is pkgsrc logic for pulling in newer versions but I'm not sure how to
> > make the exim package do that.
>
> options.mk includes mk/bdb.buildlink3.mk. That file contains, at the top,
> comments about variables to set - it sounds like adding
>
> BDB_ACCEPTED=db2 db3 db4 db5 db6 db18
>
> before the inclusion of bdb.buildlin3.mk in options.mk should solve
> your problem.

Updated to add db2 db3 db4 db5 db6

Thanks :)

David