sa-compile

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NAME
       sa-compile - compile SpamAssassin ruleset into native code

SYNOPSIS
       sa-compile [options]

       Options:

	 --list			       Output base string list to STDOUT
	 --sudo			       Use ’sudo’ for privilege escalation
	 --keep-tmps		       Keep temporary files instead of deleting
	 -C path, --configpath=path, --config-file=path
				       Path to standard configuration dir
	 -p prefs, --prefspath=file, --prefs-file=file
				       Set user preferences file
	 --siteconfigpath=path	       Path for site configs
				       (default: /etc/mail/spamassassin)
	 --updatedir=path	       Directory to place updates
			     (default: /var/lib/spamassassin/compiled/<version>)
	 --cf=’config line’	       Additional line of configuration
	 -D, --debug [area=n,...]      Print debugging messages
	 -V, --version		       Print version
	 -h, --help		       Print usage message

DESCRIPTION
       sa-compile uses "re2c" to compile the site-wide parts of the SpamAs-
       sassin ruleset. No part of user_prefs or any files included from
       user_prefs can be built into the compiled set.

       This compiled set is then used by the "Mail::SpamAssassin::Plu-
       gin::Rule2XSBody" plugin to speed up SpamAssassin’s operation, where
       possible, and when that plugin is loaded.

       "re2c" can match strings much faster than perl code, by constructing a
       DFA to match many simple strings in parallel, and compiling that to
       native object code.  Not all SpamAssassin rules are amenable to this
       conversion, however.

       This requires "re2c" (see "http://re2c.org/"), and the C compiler used
       to build Perl XS modules, be installed.

       Note that running this, and creating a compiled ruleset, will have no
       effect on SpamAssassin scanning speeds unless you also edit your
       "v320.pre" file and ensure this line is uncommented:

	 loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Rule2XSBody

OPTIONS
       --list
	   Output the extracted base strings to STDOUT, instead of generating
	   the C extension code.

       --sudo
	   Use sudo(8) to run code as ’root’ when writing files to the com-
	   piled-rules storage area (which is "/var/lib/spamassassin/com-
	   piled/3.002004" by default).

       --keep-tmps
	   Keep temporary files after the script completes, instead of delet-
	   ing them.

       -C path, --configpath=path, --config-file=path
	   Use the specified path for locating the distributed configuration
	   files.  Ignore the default directories (usually
	   "/usr/share/spamassassin" or similar).

       --siteconfigpath=path
	   Use the specified path for locating site-specific configuration
	   files.  Ignore the default directories (usually "/etc/mail/spamas-
	   sassin" or similar).

       --updatedir
	   By default, "sa-compile" will use the system-wide rules update
	   directory:

		   /var/lib/spamassassin/spamassassin/compiled/3.002004

	   If the updates should be stored in another location, specify it
	   here.

	   Note that use of this option is not recommended; if sa-compile is
	   placing the compiled rules the wrong directory, you probably need
	   to rebuild SpamAssassin with different "Makefile.PL" arguments,
	   instead of overriding sa-compile’s runtime behaviour.

       --cf=’config line’
	   Add additional lines of configuration directly from the com-
	   mand-line, parsed after the configuration files are read.   Multi-
	   ple --cf arguments can be used, and each will be considered a sep-
	   arate line of configuration.

       -p prefs, --prefspath=prefs, --prefs-file=prefs
	   Read user score preferences from prefs (usually "$HOME/.spamassas-
	   sin/user_prefs") .

       -D [area,...], --debug [area,...]
	   Produce debugging output.  If no areas are listed, all debugging
	   information is printed.  Diagnostic output can also be enabled for
	   each area individually; area is the area of the code to instru-
	   ment.

	   For more information about which areas (also known as channels)
	   are available, please see the documentation at
	   <http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DebugChannels>.

       -h, --help
	   Print help message and exit.

       -V, --version
	   Print sa-compile version and exit.

SEE ALSO
       Mail::SpamAssassin(3) spamassassin(1) spamd(1)

PREREQUESITES
       "Mail::SpamAssassin" "re2c" "Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Rule2XSBody"

BUGS
       See <http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/>

AUTHORS
       The Apache SpamAssassin(tm) Project <http://spamassassin.apache.org/>

COPYRIGHT
       SpamAssassin is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, as
       described in the file "LICENSE" included with the distribution.



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