qmail and upgrading from RH7.2 to RH9

What impact will upgrading my current RH72 installation to RH9 have on
my qmail installation?

Are there any prerequisites that need to be addressed before
upgrading? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

lnelsonb@hotmail.com (L. Nelson Butler) writes:

> What impact will upgrading my current RH72 installation to RH9 have on
> my qmail installation?
>
> Are there any prerequisites that need to be addressed before
> upgrading? Any insight would greatly be appreciated.

The only issue with RH9 and qmail is the "errno" problem. qmail,
ucspi-tcp, and daemontools require a trivial patch in order to compile
under RH9. I don't know for a fact that binaries compiled under 7.3
won't run under 9.0, but you should be prepared to recompile. The
patches are available from:

http://www.qmail.org/moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/

Or you can replace all occurrences of:

extern int errno;

with:

#include <errno.h>

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