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    8 #	$Id: README,v 1.24 2003/12/20 09:23:48 gshapiro Exp $
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   10 
   11 Libsm is a library of generally useful C abstractions.
   12 For documentation, see index.html.
   13 
   14 Libsm stands alone; it depends on no other sendmail libraries,
   15 and the only sendmail header files it depends on are its own,
   16 which reside in ../include/sm.
   17 
   18 The t-*.c files are regression tests.
   19 These tests are incomplete: we do not yet test all of the APIs,
   20 and we have not yet converted all tests to use the test harness.
   21 If a test fails read the explanation it generates.  Sometimes it
   22 is sufficient to change a compile time flag, which are also listed
   23 below.  If that does not help, check the sendmail/README files for
   24 problems on your OS.
   25 
   26 The b-*.c files are benchmarks that compare system routines with
   27 those provided by libsm. By default sendmail uses the routines
   28 provided by the OS. In several cases, the routines provided by
   29 libsm are faster than those of the OS. If your OS provides the
   30 routines, you can compare the performance of them with the libsm
   31 versions by running the programs with the option -d (by default
   32 the programs just issue an explanation when/how to use them).
   33 The programs are:
   34 
   35 b-strcmp.c	tests strcasecmp().
   36 
   37 +----------------------+
   38 | CONFIGURATION MACROS |
   39 +----------------------+
   40 
   41 Libsm uses a set of C preprocessor macros to specify platform specific
   42 features of the C compiler and standard C libraries.
   43 
   44 If you are porting sendmail to a new platform, you may need to tweak
   45 the values of some of these macros.
   46 
   47 The following macros are given default values in <sm/config.h>.
   48 If the default value is wrong for a given platform, then a platform
   49 specific 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 
   60 SM_CONF_STDBOOL_H
   61 	Set to 1 if the header file <stdbool.h> exists,
   62 	and defines true, false and bool.
   63 
   64 SM_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 
   69 SM_CONF_STDDEF_H
   70 	Set to 0 if the header file <stddef.h> does not exist.
   71 
   72 SM_CONF_SETITIMER
   73 	Set to 0 if the setitimer function is not available.
   74 
   75 SM_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 
   79 SM_CONF_UID_GID
   80 	Set to 0 if <sys/types.h> does not define uid_t and gid_t.
   81 
   82 SM_CONF_SSIZE_T
   83 	Set to 0 if <sys/types.h> does not define ssize_t.
   84 
   85 SM_CONF_BROKEN_SIZE_T
   86 	Set to 1 if size_t is not unsigned.
   87 
   88 SM_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 
   93 SM_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 
   97 SM_CONF_SHM
   98 	Set to 1 if System V shared memory APIs are available.
   99 
  100 SM_CONF_MSG
  101 	Set to 1 if System V message queues are available.
  102 
  103 SM_CONF_SEM
  104 	Set to 1 if semaphores are available.
  105 
  106 SM_CONF_BROKEN_STRTOD
  107 	Set to 1 if your strtod() does not work properly.
  108 
  109 SM_CONF_GETOPT
  110 	Set to 1 if your operating system does not include getopt(3).
  111 
  112 SM_CONF_LDAP_INITIALIZE
  113 	Set to 1 if your LDAP client libraries include ldap_initialize(3).
  114 
  115 SM_CONF_LDAP_MEMFREE
  116 	Set to 1 if your LDAP client libraries include ldap_memfree(3).
  117 
  118 SM_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 
  123 SM_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 
  128 SM_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