Upgrading from Exim 4.69 to 4.71

[SupermanInNY]

Hi All,

Just providing a solution anyone who got stuck in this scenario:

On my server with centOS 4.8 I tried to upgrade / install exim to latest of 4.71.
I kept hitting a snag of an error of exim.h:430:18: pcre.h: No such file or directory while trying to run make.
I googled and found it requierd me to install pcre-devel so I've done that, with yum install pcre-devel , but I still get the same error.
As such, I had to drop down to version 4.69.

I asked John of DA to assist me with this issue and here is the reply:

Yeah, the new exim does not have pcre build in anymore.
They require the external library to be present.
If you have custombuild, you can install it with:

./build pcre

the do exim again.

If not, just grab the source:
http://files.directadmin.com/services/custombuild/pcre-8.00.tar.gz

and compile normally with a plain ./configure:

./configure
make
make install

Thank you,

John

I did the ./build pcre option and that did the trick!
Hope this helps someone else as well.

-Alon.