Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile sendmail in new gentoo installation

[John Covici]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:47:53 -0500,
Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> On 11/13/19 9:51 PM, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi.  I am trying to create a new installation as a chroot from
> > my previous one since I don't have another box at hand and
> > don't want to take this one down for several days to recompile
> > everything.  Now I am stuck trying to emerge sendmail.  I
> > cannot emerge 8.15.2 nor 8.14.9.  The last time I emerged
> > successfully was under gcc 8.3.0 and so I tried emerging that
> > but sendmail will not compile.  I have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86
> > ~amd64" .
>
> I can't comment on the specific problem you're having.  But I can
> say that sendmail-8.15.2-r2 successfully (re)compiled (emerge
> -DuNe @world) this past weekend on a current system without any
> problems.

OK, so I found an actual gentoo bug on this, apparently, if you go to
glibc 2.30 you get the problem because /usr/include/resolv.h
eliminates the definition of RES_USE_INET6 .  They include a reference
to a patch, but the patch seems not to work, but I am working on a new
and hopefully better one.

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