Bug 17413

Summary:	New ebuild - postal mail benchmark
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Seyffer <gentoo-bugs>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	EBUILD
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.coker.com.au/postal/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	My postal ebuild. postal - smtp benchmark

Description Daniel Seyffer 2003-03-12 18:06:18 UTC

Hello,

attached is a (preliminary) ebuild for "postal", proposed app-benchmark/postal. 

Postal is a powerful SMTP (and POP3 - but I never used that) benchmark suite,
supporting SSL connections, randomized user accounts and much more. (Homepage
see URL)

I did successfully compile the sources on a Knoppix CD and on Solaris, but
building it on various Gentoo systems always seems to fail during compilation:

---- snip ----
[...]
g++ -march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -O2 -g -Wall -W
-Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual
-Woverloaded-virtual -pedantic -ffor-scope -c smtp.cpp
In file included from tcp.cpp:6:
/usr/include/unistd.h:946: declaration of `char* crypt(const char*, const
   char*) throw ()' throws different exceptions
/usr/include/openssl/des.h:193: than previous declaration `char* crypt(const
   char*, const char*)'
make: *** [tcp.o] Fehler 1
make: *** Warte auf noch nicht beendete Prozesse...
---- /snip ----

I am no expert, but this seems to be an issue with openssl headers. I patched
crypt, and it did compile yet the resulting binaries were, well...somehow broken. 

So I am provinding the ebuild as it is - seems to be better than nothing. :-/ 
And, hey, there apparently is a Debian package, so why not an ebuild! :-) 

Best Regards,
Daniel Seyffer

Comment 1 Daniel Seyffer 2003-03-12 18:08:03 UTC

Created attachment 9327 [details]
My postal ebuild.

 Uh, hopefully it is not too quick and dirty. :-)

Comment 2 Daniel Seyffer 2003-03-12 18:11:12 UTC

Just saw that I attached an old version, there is a syntax error in ${DEPEND}. sorry for that.

Comment 3 Daniel Seyffer 2004-05-03 12:12:09 UTC

Created attachment 30629 [details]
postal - smtp benchmark

Cleaned up the ebuild - now compiles and installs fine... ;-) 
Please consider adding it to portage /net-mail thanks.

Comment 4 Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-07 16:38:05 UTC

Added to portage under net-anlyzer/postal. Thank you for providing the ebuild!