Re: how to tell what options sendmail pkg was built with?

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 11:01 PM William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm in sendmail hell again.  Trying to fix broken sendmail because
> libssl.so.11 disappeared, so my sendmail from ports died.
>
> I originally built it from ports to try to shut up this error from stock
> sendmail:
>
> Warning: Option: AuthMechanisms requires SASL support (-DSASL)
> Warning: Option: AuthOptions requires SASL support (-DSASL)
>
> It would be nice if one didn't have to go through the ports pageant
> just to get a working sendmail.
>
> There's a sendmail pkg.  How does one determine what options that
> was built with, short of installing it and trying it?  Is that documented
> anywhere?  The pkg command doesn't seem to have a way to query
> for that information.
>
> Lots of googling has failed to turn up an answer.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Dudley
>
> This email is free of malware because I run UNIX.
>


I may or may not have hit send on a previous message.  If I did, sorry.

You want pkg-query(8).  There's a bunch of options you can get from it's
output.

~Paul
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