2.2 Configuring the Package

To configure the package, run configure from its top-level source directory. If you prefer to build the package in a separate directory (e.g. build located within the package top-level directory), change to that directory and run configure via its relative path, e.g.:

mkdir build
cd build
../configure

For a detailed discussion of generic configure options, refer to See Running configure Scripts in Autoconf. The rest of this section concerns configure options specific for configuring mfmod_openmetrics.

By default, configure prepares the module parts to be installed in the library and module directories used by mailfromd. To find these directories, configure will invoke mailfromd. This means that it should be able to find mailfromd using the PATH environment variable. If it isn’t the case, supply the modified PATH as argument to configure, like that:

./configure PATH=/usr/local/sbin:$PATH

If the need be, you can select the installation directories manually, using the following two command line options:

--with-mfmoddir=dir

Install loadable library (mfmod_openmetrics.so) in dir.

--with-mfldir=dir

Install interface module (openmetrics.mfl) in dir.

It is advisable to configure the module so as to use the system configuration directory used by the mailfromd server. For example, if your mailfromd looks for configuration in /etc/mailfromd, do:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc/mailfromd

This will set the location where the module will look for its configuration file (see Configuration).

If you are unsure what system configuration directory your mailfromd installation uses, run

mailfromd --no-config --show-defaults

and examine the ‘script file search path:’ line. The domain part of its first element is the system configuration directory.