[Pymilter] Building pymilter on debian sarge ?

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

> 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).

Hmm.  Could test which library exists - and distutils might have
a portable way to test whether it exports certain symbols as well when
they both exist.  Does distutils have a way to test for a library 
taking into account LIBPATH and naming conventions (e.g. .so vs. .a)?

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