[Pkg-exim4-users] Compiling Exim4 from source for Domainkeys

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:59, mark david mcCreary wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 January 2007 02:50, mark david mcCreary wrote:
> >> I have found an unofficial domain keys library for Debian at
> >>
> >> 	http://www.kibibyte.se/download/debian/
> >
> > That would be me who is to blame. :-)
>
> Magnus
>
> Thanks for doing all the work of building a Debian version of
> DomainKeys.
>
> It's tough to "blame" computer geniuses that do good work for free :-)
>
> In my case I did get a B in Com Sci 101, but flunked Com Sci 102.
> Twice.
>
> So when things get more complicated than apt-get install, I have a
> difficult time keeping up.
>
> >> I can get libdomainkeys0_0.68-1_i386.deb installed, but I don't
> >> know how to figure out where it went.
> >>
> >> I need to know where it went to give me some chance of adjusting
> >> the CLFLAGS and LDFLAGS statements, that I need to add to the
> >> Local/Makefile.
> >
> > You also need to install the -dev package to build programs using
> > the library.
>
> Ahhh, I see.  Thanks for that clue.
>
> I did find the libdomainkeys0 in /usr/share/doc, but it really didn't
> have any clues for
> somebody at my level.
>
> Can I take http://www.kibibyte.se/download/debian/ and add that to my
> /etc/apt/sources.list somehow.  And do apt-get installs'.

Sorry, I haven't set up a proper repository yet, so that's unfortunately not 
possible.

> Or do I need to ftp the packages and install them with dpkg.
>
> > I was meaning to include a .pc file containing the necessary
> > compiler and
> > linker flags in a future version. Since the header files are installed
> > in /usr/include and the .so file in /usr/lib, you only need
>
> I have no idea what a .pc file is but anything you can do to make it
> easier
> is much appreciated :-)

Many -dev packages include a program named <package>-config, which answers 
questions like "which configuration options were used when building the 
package" and "which flags do I need to compile and link with a library". 
pkg-config answers the second question by reading a file of a standardised 
format, so that you can say

LDFLAGS += `pkg-config --libs libdomainkeys gnutls someotherlib`

etc, and get all the parameters needed.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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