Being a good boy I don't post this in the sticky thread since I'm not running a fresh -current (Eric's multilib among other things).
I've previously built various versions of clamav (up to 0.101.4) using the official SBo script with no issues at all.
However, trying to build 0.102.0 building terminates with
Same happens with ponce's -current buildscript.

That's odd, since the file clamav-milter.conf.sample is present in /tmp/SBo/package-clamav/etc/

Don't know if that could be related to build issues reported elsewhere. I found this statement from the clamav maintainers at a mail forum:
"It appears that configure changes between ClamAV 0.102.0-rc and 0.102.0 broke building of clamav-milter.
We will identify the exact issue and include a fix for it in a 0.102.1 patch release along with one or two other bug fixes."

I found another slackbuild script that works: https://github.com/conraid/SlackBuil.../master/clamav
but it seems as if this script builds clamav without milter.

Fine with me since I only use clamav for checking some files before passing them on to others.

Maybe everything will be sorted with the next clamav release. If ponce (who also maintains the official SBo script) reads this, maybe he could shed some light over the issue?

as you note that's a known bug of version 0.102.0

https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/c...er/008626.html

someone proposed a patch some time ago but it looks like brokeness was underestimated

https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel/pull/111

that's the reason why other distributions decided too to stay at 0.101.4 for the moment

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/clamav/
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/c.../f/clamav.spec

as long as a working version is released I'll update the script on SBo.

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Thanks a lot, ponce! I'll stick with 0.101.4 for the time being.

clamav-0.102.1 has now been released and builds fine on -current with existing SBo script. Problem sorted.

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Since the issue seems to be solved now, I'd like to ask a question regarding the need or value currently anyway of Clamav or any AV app aside from rootkit checkers on Linux. Have any of you ever actually detected a virus in Slackware?

Yes on inbound mail to my sendmail server. I don't use clamav at the OS level for either servers or desktops.

it's not actually something that you use to detect viruses targeting linux, it is mostly useful if you export samba shares or you host a mail server, as the signatures it uses are (for the most part) for windows viruses.