[darcs-users] Re: send.sh test still fail

[Gaetan Lehmann]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:54:14 +0100, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:34:44PM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
>> Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
>> > I can't get why, but I can't reproduce that problem today. The test
>> > pass  without problem !
>>
>> > Perhap's Jens can still reproduce it ?
>>
>> Yep, but only in the Fedora Extras buildsystem, which uses mock to  
>> build in a
>> minimal buildroot.  It build fine with mock on my own workstation.
>>
>> For now I'm just skipping send.sh for Fedora Extras.
>
> Ah, I think I know what it is.  Darcs requires that /usr/sbin/sendmail be
> present (during configure) in order to hard-code the path to the binary
> that will be used for sending email.  You can get around this by  
> specifying
>
> ./configure --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> when configuring.  If darcs has no idea where to locate sendmail, the
> email-sending capability is turned off--even if --with-sendmail is passed
> to darcs on the command line.  The debian build scripts have a mailer as  
> a
> build-dependency (which is indeed a nasty hack).
>
> Another approach would just to be to hard-code /usr/sbin/sendmail if we
> can't locate a sendmail at configure time...

Thanks for the explanation.
using

   %configure --with-sendmail=%{_sbindir}/sendmail

in the spec file is fine to me.

However, shoudn't send.sh be disabled if darcs is build without mail  
support ?

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Gaëtan Lehmann
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