[CentOS] Problem building latest Courier-authlib on CentOS4

Thu May 17 15:47:48 UTC 2012
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>

On 5/17/2012 11:34 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> Upgrading to CentOS6 is on my list, but I'm trying to get the latest
>> Courier-MTA running at the moment.
>>
>> I downloaded the current courier tarballs and tried to build the rpms on a
>> CentOS4 system.  I got these errors:
>>
>> $ rpmbuild -tb courier-authlib-0.64.0.tar.bz2
> <snip>
>> RPM build errors:
>>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.93944 (%build)
>>
>> I asked on the Courier list and Sam said that my libtool is too old.  He
>> suggested adding an "autoreconf" line to the spec file, but that just
>> generated an error that my Autoconf is too old.
>>
>> Can someone give me a pointer as to how to fix this?
> You may not be able to, not without doing some programming yourself.
> You're trying to build a current package on an o/s two releases old, with
> no updates since, um, last year?

As I said, I've got plans to replace it with a CentOS6 server, but
that's going to take a bit longer, but I was hoping to be able to
upgrade Courier first.

-- 
Bowie