hello gang,

I bought a book on postfix and one of the first steps it says is to download the source, make some user additions and group mods, then compile it.

The complilation is the problem, here is the error i recieve.

the instructions are to copy the source file (wot i belive is the tar.gz) file to the root, tpye the command 'tar -zxvf <postfix sorcefile.tar.gz> -C /usr/local/src

do some user addition and group mod as i say.

then change to /usr/local/src/postfix-2.2/

then type 'make'

This is the result of the make command below:

The book recommends checking for the exsistance of a compliler before running make with the command 'gcc --version'. I have version 3.3.5.

Sorry i should have stated earlier, this is a debian 3.2 system, install from netinst image.

Can anyone help me please, if its not pai9nfully obvious yet i am a massive noob, but i want this thing working and i wont stop until i do.

Thanks guys.

No experience with postfix, but looks like it needs a database (mysql, sqlite, ....).
I would check the postfix documentation to see which databases are supported, install one of them (if not already done) and install the libraries (db*-devel package) for that database.