Sisyphus said:
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Yes - unless you can find a suitable RPM.
Seems to me that the 'README' that's part of the Sendmail::Milter source
answers both of those questions (and more).
Cheers,
Rob
OK, I looked at the README and it is only slightly less cryptic than
the message that Makefile.PL spits out
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
Building Sendmail::Milter
-------------------------
Begin by building sendmail, libmilter, and perl with -Dusethreads.
Next,
perform the following commands:
% perl Makefile.PL ../sendmail ../sendmail/obj.FreeBSD.4.0-RELEASE.i386
% make
% make install
The paths ../sendmail and ../sendmail/obj.FreeBSD.4.0-RELEASE.i386
should point
to the sendmail source tree and the sendmail build directory,
respectively.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This does not answer either question. It does not make clear (at least
to me) whether I have to build sendmail from source myself or if I can
use the sendmail built by my package maintainter. It also does not
clarify what the heck the "sendmail source tree" and the "sendmail
build directory" refer to (respectively!).
<soapbox>
It is actually quite typical of open-source documentation... it takes
you most of the way, then leaves you hanging, much like a former
girlfriend of mine.
</soapbox>
Anyway, I eventually did resort to building sendmail from source
(although I am still not convinced that I really needed to, and I
certainly don't understand why I should have to, just to install this
Perl module, but hey, it's free software, right? Your money cheerfully
refunded if you are not completely satisfied!) but the only way I could
figure out what stupid parameters to give it was by guessing, then
deciphering the error messages for clues. But after all that effort, I
eventually did get it to give up the goods (same with the girlfriend).