[Pymilter] Building pymilter on debian sarge ?

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, paddy wrote:

> I get as far as
> 
>   # python setup.py build
>   running build
>   running build_py
>   running build_ext
>   building 'milter' extension
>   gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.3/miltermodule.o -lmilter -lsmutil -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/milter.so
>   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsmutil
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>   error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> I have a libmilter.so but only libsmutil.a
> 
> Am I correct in thinking I need libsmutil.so ?

The name of the sendmail library varies with distro for some reason.  Try
renaming "smutil" to "sm" in setup.py.  Any suggestions on how to make this
change automatically are welcome (perhaps a big table in setup.py).

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