[Pymilter] Install problem on 64bit CentOS

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

> > relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `mi_opensocket' can not be used when
> > making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > 
> > Any hint how I could fix this?
> 
> This is a problem with the sendmail package on x86_64.  It is fixed in
> Fedora, however for Centos-5, you will have to get the sendmail
> SRPM and fix it to compile libmilter with -fPIC.  On Fedora, they
> went all the way and made libmilter a shared library.  However,
> just adding -fPIC when compiling libmilter.a does the trick.

I added the requisite patch for Centos-5.3 and sendmail-8.14.3, and will upload
the RPMs, including SRPM, to sourceforge shortly.

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