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July 26th, 2003

Latest Sendmail, GCC Don’t Mix

Michael Amper reports that the latest Sendmail 8.12.10 doesn’t compile cleanly with Apple’s most recent 3.3 version of the GCC compiler. While this certainly isn’t the first package to have problems compiling via GCC 3.3 on Mac OS X, Sendmail is usually the type of application one would like to keep current given its apparent penchant for security exploits. Temporarily downgrading to GCC 3.1 is one solution; deploying a more secure mail transfer agent such as Exim or Postfix is another.

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2 Responses to “Latest Sendmail, GCC Don’t Mix”

  1. David_S says:

    These instructions were incredibly helpful — could you persuade Marc Liyanage to post a link on his pages?

    I fell over two problems, one of which delayed me for a couple of days. In Step 5, I didn’t pick up the implications of the ‘dedicated server’ text (must have thought it meant a separate server). I’m running mySQL locally for development but didn’t realise it applied to my configuration. So it might be helpful to others to say something like:
    Persistent connections: [Leave it unchecked, unless you have your own dedicated server, e.g. you’re running MySQL on your localhost.]
    Session storage: [Choose Database, unless you have your own dedicated server on localhost. In that case, choose Files.]

    When I switched to Persistent and Files, my previous problems (of not seeding the new database from the sample data) went away.

    It might also be helpful to add the final permissions edit as per the osCommerce instructions:
    chmod 777 /Library/WebServer/Documents/catalog/images
    mkdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/catalog/admin/backups
    chmod 777 /Library/WebServer/Documents/catalog/admin/backups
    chmod 777 /Library/WebServer/Documents/catalog/admin/images/graphs

    Thanks again — I couldn’t have got up and running without this help!

    July 28th, 2004 at 12:45 am
  2. Testmonkey says:

    The downloadlink to Marc’s Page lead now to a download of PHP 5.01 Does anyone have any experience if oscommerce works well with PHP 5, are there any changes to be made or should i rather go with PHP 4 ? I did not install PHP yet but would like to know this before i’m gonna start.

    October 29th, 2004 at 7:25 am