Error when building Mail::Spamassasin

[graffiti]

Attachment is the error when I tried to build ThirdParty/Perl/perllib.tgz on a RHEL4 box. It seems that Mail::Spamassassin requires Digest::SHA1 and HTML::Parser but somehow these two modules were not installed. I have re-tried so many times but still no luck. Please advise.

-g

[marcmac]

Try this:

Remove your ~root/.cpan/CPAN/MyCongfig.pm (if you have one).

Then (as root)
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::SHA1'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Parser'

THen, replace your MyCOnfig.pm (if you have one) and you should be ok to build.

[graffiti]

Thanks marcmac, Mail::Spamassassin was built successfully but another error appeared when I tried to start amavisd: Can't locate Convert/TNEF.pm. Please help.

TIA,

-g

[marcmac]

Check the output from your perl lib build - Convert::TNEF is definitely built, though the build doesn't exit on errors in a particular module.

[graffiti]

Convert::TNEF was not built because I didnt have expat-devel which is required by XML::XML_Parser. I dont know whether Convert:TNEF depends on XML::XML_Parser or not but I got it built when I installed expat-devel. Please put these requirements to ZimbraServer/docs/build_cvs_howto.txt.

TIA,

-g

PS1: marcmac, could you please show me the way not to run "make test" when installing Perl modules? I found that these tests consume a lot of time but it seems that they are useless. When I built Net::LDAP (somehow it wasnt built by default ), although the tests failed but I just run "make install" and NET::LDAP works like a charm.

PS2: another request, could you please ship perllib.tgz for RHEL4 and FC3 along with zimbra source? It's a breeze to build all third-parties but perllib.tgz which took me days to build .

[marcmac]

We don't ship the built perl libs for the same reason we don't ship other 3rd party sources - it's too much trouble, especially since they're available from the authors.

Not sure how to avoid "make test" but perldoc on CPAN.pm might show the way.

[jgao]

Is this a third party utility, or yourself made package like mysql-standard-4.1.10a-clientlibs.tgz?

If true third party utility, please provide the link. I can't get any hit by googling.

If yourself made package, please give your definition/description, and procedure to make this.

Thanks.

[marcmac]

http://www.google.com/search?q=spama...en-US:official

[jgao]

I'm really asking what's perllib.tgz. what should be included?

[marcmac]

cd Thirdparty/Perl, make

did you read cvs_build_howto.txt in ZimbraServer/docs?