1# Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers. 2# All rights reserved. 3# 4# By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set 5# forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of 6# the sendmail distribution. 7# 8# $Id: README,v 1.24 2003/12/20 09:23:48 gshapiro Exp $ 9# 10 11Libsm is a library of generally useful C abstractions. 12For documentation, see index.html. 13 14Libsm stands alone; it depends on no other sendmail libraries, 15and the only sendmail header files it depends on are its own, 16which reside in ../include/sm. 17 18The t-*.c files are regression tests. 19These tests are incomplete: we do not yet test all of the APIs, 20and we have not yet converted all tests to use the test harness. 21If a test fails read the explanation it generates. Sometimes it 22is sufficient to change a compile time flag, which are also listed 23below. If that does not help, check the sendmail/README files for 24problems on your OS. 25 26The b-*.c files are benchmarks that compare system routines with 27those provided by libsm. By default sendmail uses the routines 28provided by the OS. In several cases, the routines provided by 29libsm are faster than those of the OS. If your OS provides the 30routines, you can compare the performance of them with the libsm 31versions by running the programs with the option -d (by default 32the programs just issue an explanation when/how to use them). 33The programs are: 34 35b-strcmp.c tests strcasecmp(). 36 37+----------------------+ 38| CONFIGURATION MACROS | 39+----------------------+ 40 41Libsm uses a set of C preprocessor macros to specify platform specific 42features of the C compiler and standard C libraries. 43 44If you are porting sendmail to a new platform, you may need to tweak 45the values of some of these macros. 46 47The following macros are given default values in <sm/config.h>. 48If the default value is wrong for a given platform, then a platform 49specific value is specified in one of two ways: 50 51 - A -D option is added to the confENVDEF macro; this change can be made 52 to the platform M4 file in devtools/OS, or to the site.config.m4 53 file in devtools/Site. 54 55 - The confSM_OS_HEADER macro in the platform M4 file defines sm_os_foo, 56 which forces "sm/os/sm_os_foo.h" to be included by "sm/config.h" via a 57 link that is made from "sm_os.h" to "sm/os/sm_os_foo.h". Platform 58 specific configuration macro settings are added to <sm/os/sm_os_foo.h>. 59 60SM_CONF_STDBOOL_H 61 Set to 1 if the header file <stdbool.h> exists, 62 and defines true, false and bool. 63 64SM_CONF_SYS_CDEFS_H 65 Set to 1 if the header file <sys/cdefs.h> exists, 66 and defines __P. You may need to do this to eliminate 67 warnings about __P being multiply defined. 68 69SM_CONF_STDDEF_H 70 Set to 0 if the header file <stddef.h> does not exist. 71 72SM_CONF_SETITIMER 73 Set to 0 if the setitimer function is not available. 74 75SM_CONF_SYSEXITS_H 76 Set to 1 if <sysexits.h> exists, and sets the EX_* macros 77 to values different from the default BSD values in <sm/sysexits.h>. 78 79SM_CONF_UID_GID 80 Set to 0 if <sys/types.h> does not define uid_t and gid_t. 81 82SM_CONF_SSIZE_T 83 Set to 0 if <sys/types.h> does not define ssize_t. 84 85SM_CONF_BROKEN_SIZE_T 86 Set to 1 if size_t is not unsigned. 87 88SM_CONF_LONGLONG 89 Set to 1 if your C compiler supports the 'long long' type. 90 This will be set automatically if you use gcc or a C compiler 91 that conforms to the 1999 ISO C standard. 92 93SM_CONF_QUAD_T 94 Set to 1 if your C compiler does not support 'long long', 95 but <sys/types.h> defines quad_t as an integral type. 96 97SM_CONF_SHM 98 Set to 1 if System V shared memory APIs are available. 99 100SM_CONF_MSG 101 Set to 1 if System V message queues are available. 102 103SM_CONF_SEM 104 Set to 1 if semaphores are available. 105 106SM_CONF_BROKEN_STRTOD 107 Set to 1 if your strtod() does not work properly. 108 109SM_CONF_GETOPT 110 Set to 1 if your operating system does not include getopt(3). 111 112SM_CONF_LDAP_INITIALIZE 113 Set to 1 if your LDAP client libraries include ldap_initialize(3). 114 115SM_CONF_LDAP_MEMFREE 116 Set to 1 if your LDAP client libraries include ldap_memfree(3). 117 118SM_IO_MAX_BUF_FILE 119 Set this to a useful buffer size for regular files if stat(2) 120 does not return a value for st_blksize that is the 121 "optimal blocksize for I/O". 122 123SM_IO_MAX_BUF 124 Set this to a useful maximum buffer size for other than 125 regular files if stat(2) does not return a value for 126 st_blksize that is the "optimal blocksize for I/O". 127 128SM_IO_MIN_BUF 129 Set this to a useful minimum buffer size for other than 130 regular files if stat(2) does not return a value for 131 st_blksize that is the "optimal blocksize for I/O". 132 133