Useful Tables
This section contains two tables of information that are useful for
building and installing sendmail:
Table 2-1 (Section 2.2.1 [V8.13]) shows the directories and files that will populate the source directory after you extract the
sendmailsource.Table 2-2 (Section 2.2.2 [V8.13]) shows the
m4directives that determine how thesendmailprogram (and its companion programs) will be built.
The sendmail Source Directory
The files and directories that appear
after
you unpack sendmail into its source directory
are listed in Table 2-1. They are described in
detail in the sections indicated.
Table 2-1. Files and directories in the distribution directory
|
File/Directory |
sendmail text reference |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
Build |
2.2.1.1[3ed] |
A top-level |
|
CACerts |
[V8.13] |
A list of CA certificates used by members of the sendmail consortium |
|
cf |
4.2[3ed] |
Top of the tree for building a configuration file |
|
contrib |
2.2.1.2[3ed] |
Unsupported, user-contributed software |
|
devtools |
2.2.1.3[3ed] |
Top of the tree for |
|
doc |
2.2.1.4[3ed] |
Current and background documentation |
|
editmap |
5.2[3ed] |
Edit database file entries |
|
FAQ | ||
|
include |
2.2.1.5[3ed] |
Header files common to all programs |
|
INSTALL |
2.2.1.6[3ed] |
An overview of how to build and install |
|
KNOWNBUGS |
2.2.1.7[3ed] |
Tough problems that remain unfixed |
|
libmilter |
2.2.1.8[3ed] |
Library used to create a multithreaded filter |
|
libsm ... |