Milter-greylist

Just two important notes ...

Bill Levering wrote:
 > FreeBSD webmig.com 4.7-RELEASE-p28 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 #43: Wed  
 > Jul 20 09:35:30 MDT 2005     root@fc2:/usr/src/sys/compile/VKERN  i386

FreeBSD 4.7 is 4 years old and not supported anymore by the
FreeBSD security team.  Besides, a lot of current software
doesn't build on 4.7 anymore (even from the current ports
collection) because of its ancient compiler and toolchain,
and some missing POSIX-compliance in the standard includes
which has been fixed in newer releases.

Frankly, I'm not surprised that you have problems building
milter-greylist.  I strongly recommend to upgrad to a newer
release (e.g. 6.1-RELEASE or 6.1-STABLE).  It will also fix
a lot of security issues, which you should care about on a
mail server.  And I'm sure that milter-greylist will compile
with less problems.

 > ./configure (no options)
 > 
 > completed ok
 > 
 > milter-greylist-2.1.11# make
 > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -D_BSD_SOURCE -c milter-greylist.c

The "-O2" flag will break on FreeBSD 4.7.  You should use
no more than "-O1".  On FreeBSD 6.1 you can use "-O2" if
you also use "-fno-strict-aliasing" (unless you are 100%
sure that the code in question is aliasing-clean).

Best regards
   Oliver Fromme

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