hey all,

I need to be able to switch back and forth between two versions of
sendmail - for testing purposes. I've downloaded the code, but for the
life of me can't figure out how to install sendmail in a different
prefix besides the root one.

Please, please tell me that sendmail supports the --prefix option, or a
variant thereof, like every single other package out there. Please.
Workarounds would be appreciated if this doesn't exist.

And if someone mentions 'oh - just use chroot' I'm going to go over to
the nearest corner and quietly bash my head against the wall...

Jon

ttyp32000@yahoo.com wrote:
> hey all,
>
> I need to be able to switch back and forth between two versions of
> sendmail - for testing purposes. I've downloaded the code, but for the
> life of me can't figure out how to install sendmail in a different
> prefix besides the root one.
>
> Please, please tell me that sendmail supports the --prefix option, or a
> variant thereof, like every single other package out there. Please.
> Workarounds would be appreciated if this doesn't exist.

According to the bat book

../Build -E DESTDIR=/usr/local/testsendmail

Or you can try these vars in your siteconfig.m4

confMBINDIR
confUBINDIR
confSBINDIR

look for others inside devtools/README

>
> And if someone mentions 'oh - just use chroot' I'm going to go over to
> the nearest corner and quietly bash my head against the wall...

How about just use the second binary anywhere you want with anyname you
want?

>
> Jon