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Hi all

When trying to build exim 4.97, it fails because the perl modules
File::FcntlLock is missing. That is quite unfortunate, as it introduces
a new dependency.

I got around it by patching exim_id_update.src, commenting out

use File::FcntlLock;

and twice

$fs->l_whence( SEEK_CUR );


After that, exim builds fine, however I'm not sure if this totally
breaks something.

Can somebody tell me if this is ok, or leaves me with a bad exim?


Below is the patch.

Bye
Tim














--- exim-4.97/src/exim_id_update.src 2023-11-04 13:55:49.000000000 +0100
+++ exim-4.97-no_lock/src/exim_id_update.src 2023-11-17
00:07:32.086560372 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
use Getopt::Std;
use File::Find;
use Fcntl;
-use File::FcntlLock;
+#use File::FcntlLock;
use IO::Handle;


@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
my $fs = new File::FcntlLock;

$fs->l_type( F_WRLCK );
- $fs->l_whence( SEEK_CUR );
+# $fs->l_whence( SEEK_CUR );
$fs->l_start( 0 );
$fs->l_len( $nbytes );

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
my $fs = new File::FcntlLock;

$fs->l_type( F_UNLCK );
- $fs->l_whence( SEEK_CUR );
+# $fs->l_whence( SEEK_CUR );
$fs->l_start( 0 );
$fs->l_len( $nbytes );
$fs->lock( $fh, F_SETLK )

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