building balsa (and libesmtp) on solaris8 sparc/x86 - a howto (finally!)

[James McPherson <James McPherson Sun COM>]

Hi - I've finally pulled my finger out and documented my process for building
balsa 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 on solaris8 (sparc and x86). Here 'tis.



Step 1

Install the Sun Freeware builds of gcc, libc, gnu build tools (automake, gawk 
et al)
from the "Companion Software cdrom" that comes with your Solaris 8 distribution.

Step 1.5 (not totally necessary)

Ensure that your shell sees the gnu versions of the utils which are in 
/usr/bin/ and
/usr/ccs/bin by running the following as root:

# cd /usr/bin
# for file in *; do
> if [ -f /opt/sfw/$file ]; then
>   ln -s /opt/sfw/$file /opt/sfw/g$file
> fi
> done


Step 2

Install the Gnome 1.4 packages from "Exploring the Gnome 1.4 desktop"

Step 3

Set your PATH:

PATH=/opt/sfw/bin:/opt/gnome-1.4/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH ; export PATH

(CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS will change with each package)

Step 4

grab pspell 0.12.2 and configure, build, and install as follows:

$ ./configure  --prefix=/usr/local --enable-ltdl --enable-ltdl-install
$ gmake
$ gmake install


Step 5

grab pcre 3.4 and configure, build, and install as follows:

$ CC=gcc ./configure  --prefix=/usr/local
$ gmake
$ gmake install


Step 6 (optional)

grab openssl 0.9.6b and configure, build and install as follows:

$ ./config --prefix=/usr/local threads shared
$ gmake
$ gmake install


Step 7

grab libesmtp 0.8.6 and configure, build and install as follows:

$ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -lsocket -nsl"
$ CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include"
$ CPPFLAGS=$CFLAGS
$ export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-all --enable-pthreads \
> --enable-require-all-recipients --enable-starttls --enable-ltdl-install

> for mf in `find . -name Makefile`; do   sed -e"s,-ansi -pedantic,,g" < 
> ${mf} > ${mf}.new; mv ${mf}.new ${mf}; done


if not fix already integrated, you will see an error compiling with an
include file called crammd5/md5.h due to u_int[8|32]_t not being defined.
Fix this with a quick edit to crammd5/md5.h (after line #include <sys/types.h>):

/* included for Solaris, which doesn't have u_intXX_t  * James.McPherson@Sun.COM
*/

#ifdef sun
typedef uint8_t         u_int8_t;
typedef uint32_t        u_int32_t;
#endif /* ifdef sun */


edit errors.c and protocol.c (before the include for <netdb.h>):

/* added as quick hack by James.McPherson@Sun.COM so that this file
  * compiles with Forte C 6.0 (new name for Sun Workshop C Compiler
*/

#ifdef sun
#define __EXTENSIONS__  1
#endif

/* end James.McPherson@Sun.COM's hackery in this file */

You'll also need the above #define if using gcc because the necessary 
definitions
for EAI* that errors.c and protocol.c depend on don't get activated if 
__EXTENSIONS__
is null. Weird.



Step 8

If you want to include Emmanuel's filter patches, grab them from 
bugzilla.gnome.org
(bugid is 61072 for 1.2.0), use gpatch to apply:

$ gpatch -p0 < balsa_filters_1.2.0._20011002.txt
$ automake
$ CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -I/opt/gnome-1.4/include"
$ CPPFLAGS=$CFLAGS
$ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnome-1.4/lib "
$ export CFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS
$ 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome-1.4/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
;
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

(For some reason the configure script failed to recognise that iconv* functions 
are
included in libc on solaris, so you might need to edit the configure script at 
line
5921 to remove the "-liconv". If "-liconv" shows up in the makefiles, a short 
sed
script will fix it)

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-gnome=/opt/gnome-1.4 \
> --with-gnome-includes=/opt/gnome-1.4/include \
> --with-gnome-libs=/opt/gnome-1.4/lib --with-glib-prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 \
> --disable-glib-test --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 --disable-gtk-test \
> --enable-all --enable-mdn-reply --enable-threads --with-ssl \
> --enable-more-warnings=no --enable-fcntl=yes


obviously if you don't want ssl, don't use --with-ssl. The --enable-fcntl=yes is
there because otherwise libmutt will try to use both fcntl and flock file 
locking
(both of which work fine on Solaris) but gcc/cc won't really know which codepath
to choose.

If -liconv needs removing:

$ for mf in `find . -name Makefile`; do
>   sed -e"s,-liconv,,g" < $mf > $mf.new
>   mv $mf.new $mf
> done

Then the biggy,

$ gmake
$ gmake install




It's pretty simple now (and really easy compared to pre-1.2.0!)

I'm working on a "make pkg" target for the makefiles and i'll post that when I
have it figured out.




I hope this helps people out there - it's nice to have balsa on solaris, 
especially
when the next best thing is the entirely bletcherous dtmail!

Oh, I need to put in the obligatory waiver and disclaimer:

Sun Microsystems does not provide support for the above procedure, and does not
guarantee that any of the above procedure is in fact accurate. All care is taken
to ensure the procedure's accuracy, but NO RESPONSIBILITY is given or 
undertaken.


(Otherwise I might get larted by my boss). I'm happy to help people get balsa up
and running on Solaris btw but that's totally on my own time and under my own 
steam.

best regards to all (and thanks to the development team!)

James C. McPherson

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