Hi im installing qmail using qmailrocks.org
guide .i have done everthing up to apply the big patches, but when i go to the next step (Now we build Qmail...) and type "make man && make setup check" it gives me this :

[root@localhost qmail-1.03]# make man && make setup check
make: Nothing to be done for `man'.
./compile qmail-local.c
./compile: line 3: exec: cc: not found
make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 127

Why???????????????????

Thanks for any help

You don't have a c compiler on your box. If you're doing this install on your Fedora system, try installing gcc using Yum....

yum install gcc

If you're on RH9, just go find an RPM that will work... maybe try www.rpmseek.com and download/install it.

hi
i got the gcc of the fedora cd but when i retype the command:

[root@localhost qmail-1.03]# make man && make setup check
make: Nothing to be done for `man'.
./compile qmail-local.c
qmail-local.c:1:23: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
qmail-local.c:2:22: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
In file included from qmail-local.c:19:
error.h:5:19: errno.h: No such file or directory
qmail-local.c: In function `temp_fork':
qmail-local.c:37: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:37: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
qmail-local.c:37: error: for each function it appears in.)
qmail-local.c: In function `temp_read':
qmail-local.c:38: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `temp_qmail':
qmail-local.c:42: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `maildir_child':
qmail-local.c:88: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:94: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `mailfile':
qmail-local.c:197: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `mailprogram':
qmail-local.c:266: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `checkhome':
qmail-local.c:332: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:335: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `qmeox':
qmail-local.c:348: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:357: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `qmeexists':
qmail-local.c:367: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:373: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:380: error: `S_IFMT' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:380: error: `S_IFREG' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `main':
qmail-local.c:510: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:469: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1
[root@localhost qmail-1.03]#

I get this ,yet again WHY????

Thankyou for your help

>> it came up with this what do i do

It came up with WHAT?? Some error message?? You weren't very clear on what happened when you ran the command. What was the output?

hi
i got the gcc of the fedora cd but when i retype the command:

[root@localhost qmail-1.03]# make man && make setup check
make: Nothing to be done for `man'.
./compile qmail-local.c
qmail-local.c:1:23: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
qmail-local.c:2:22: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
In file included from qmail-local.c:19:
error.h:5:19: errno.h: No such file or directory
qmail-local.c: In function `temp_fork':
qmail-local.c:37: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:37: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
qmail-local.c:37: error: for each function it appears in.)
qmail-local.c: In function `temp_read':
qmail-local.c:38: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `temp_qmail':
qmail-local.c:42: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `maildir_child':
qmail-local.c:88: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:94: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `mailfile':
qmail-local.c:197: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `mailprogram':
qmail-local.c:266: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `checkhome':
qmail-local.c:332: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:335: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `qmeox':
qmail-local.c:348: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:357: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `qmeexists':
qmail-local.c:367: error: storage size of `st' isn't known
qmail-local.c:373: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:380: error: `S_IFMT' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:380: error: `S_IFREG' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c: In function `main':
qmail-local.c:510: error: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
qmail-local.c:469: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1
[root@localhost qmail-1.03]#

I get this ,yet again WHY????

Thankyou for your help

You need to download and install the errno patch for all of the services you're running. If you're running daemontools, you'll need to patch this...

wget http://www.qmail.org/moni.csi.hu/pub...76.errno.patch
patch -p0 < daemontools-0.76.errno.patch

You also need it for ucspi-tcp...

wget http://www.qmail.org/moni.csi.hu/pub...88.errno.patch
patch -p1 < ucspi-tcp-0.88.errno.patch

And finally... qmail itself...

wget ftp://moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/qm...03.errno.patch
patch -p1 < qmail-1.03.errno.patch

Wait a minute... I just looked back to your first post and I realized you're trying to follow qmailrocks.org. You really need to get those patches installed in the steps prior to running your "make man && make setup check" commands. There are a few lines right before this that talk about running the qmail_big_patches.script. You need to run this if you haven't. You also need to watch carefully for errors when you run it. If you ran it successfully, there should be no errors about "errno". If you get any errors, you may want to go back a few steps and repeat what you've done. As far as I know, the install should be very clean.

it asks which file to patch
Which ???????//

>> it asks which file to patch

Forget that... don't run the commands I'm showing in post #6. You need to run the commands at qmailrocks.org. They've got the patches all setup and everything.

I ran the QmailRocks install package without incident.

The problem I have with QMR, is he wants a web server installed.
All I want is a pure QMail server, no web.

I wiped the system clean, and will try LifeWithQmail using Fedora FC2.

The web server is necessary for only a few reasons.

1) qmail-admin, which is used for adding, modifying or deleting domains from qmail

2) webmail. If you don't need webmail, you can skip these steps.

3) managing ezmlm mailing lists

That's about all. I recommend doing the install completely as qmailrocks describes, and then turn off the stuff you dont want after you're finished. You can have the web server running on the localhost only so that allows you to take advantage of the admin capabilities without putting your server at risk. You can also firewall port 80 from the outside so that will keep it secure too.

I think installation guides like qmailrocks are very good... much better than life with qmail. If you're only making a mail server for a single domain, that's the only case where I'd recommend it over an installation like qmailrocks.