[Pymilter] Install problem on 64bit CentOS

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Oli Schacher wrote:

> On i386 Centos 5 machines I could just do 'yum install sendmail-devel'
> and 'python setup.py install' to get pymilter running.
> 
> However, on our 64 bit servers there is a compilation error.
> 
> 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.

While you're in the SRPM, update it to sendmail-8.14.3.  I'll try
to get to that for x86_64, but don't wait up for me.  I've posted
an SRPM for sendmail-8.14.3 for EL4 - that will give examples of
how the patch files need to be modified when updating.

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