issue recompiling procmail
 

Hi.

I need to recompile the Procmail package so as to get it delivering to a maildir as default.

I have done it on Slackware 12.2.0 without any trouble, Now i need to do the same with Slackware 13.37.0 64bit. I downloaded the sources and before doing any change I tried to compile it using the provided slackbuild.

It starts fine but all of a suddem it stops complainning about conflicting types of "getline"

[snip]
cc -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 procmail.o cstdio.o common.o exopen.o goodies.o locking.o mailfold.o foldinfo.o misc.o pipes.o regexp.o robust.o sublib.o acommon.o mcommon.o lastdirsep.o authenticate.o lmtp.o memblk.o variables.o from.o comsat.o -o procmail -s -lm -lnsl -ldl -lc
ln ../src/procmail ../new/procmail
cc -c -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 lockfile.c
cc -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 lockfile.o exopen.o sublib.o acommon.o mcommon.o authenticate.o lastdirsep.o -o lockfile -s -lm -lnsl -ldl -lc
ln ../src/lockfile ../new/lockfile
cc -c -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 formail.c
In file included from formail.c:25:0:
formisc.h:20:2: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
/usr/include/stdio.h:671:20: note: previous declaration of 'getline' was here
make[1]: *** [formail.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/procmail-3.22/src'
make: *** [bins] Error 2

Please, how can I fix or circumvent this issue?

Regards,
Carlos

This patch courtesy of our Gentoo colleagues seems to allow recompilation. Drop the .txt of course...

Tank you very much.

Just in case someone wants to get the benefits of maildir, here is the patch I use that makes procmail delivery to maildir as default option.


--- procmail-3.22.orig/src/authenticate.c 2009-03-31 13:05:36.717794563 -0300
+++ procmail-3.22/src/authenticate.c 2009-03-31 13:07:05.196597000 -0300
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
#define MAILSPOOLDIR "/var/mail/" /* watch the trailing / */
#endif
#ifndef MAILSPOOLSUFFIX
-#define MAILSPOOLSUFFIX "" /* suffix to force maildir or MH style */
+#define MAILSPOOLSUFFIX "/" /* suffix to force maildir or MH style */
#endif
#ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
#define MAILSPOOLHASH 0 /* 2 would deliver to /var/mail/b/a/bar */

Regards,
Carlos

PV should be on holidays but perhaps the gentoo patch would be useful when development restarts later...