--- /dev/null
+The exim install script installs a binary named exim-<version>, plus a symlink
+to it named exim.
+In order to achieve this "feature" (of dubious usefulness) it runs the
+executable (on the host) and then filters its output to grab the version number.
+This clearly cannot work if the executable is cross-compiled, so get rid of all
+of it and just install an executable file called exim.
+
+Inspired by:
+http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/exim4/4.76-2/35_install.dpatch
+
+Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
+---
+ scripts/exim_install | 7 +++++--
+ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/exim_install b/scripts/exim_install
+index e68e7d5..487a4e1 100755
+--- a/scripts/exim_install
++++ b/scripts/exim_install
+@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
+ shift
+ done
+
++do_symlink=no
++
+ # Get the values of BIN_DIRECTORY, CONFIGURE_FILE, INFO_DIRECTORY, NO_SYMLINK,
+ # SYSTEM_ALIASES_FILE, and EXE from the global Makefile (in the build
+ # directory). EXE is empty except in the Cygwin environment. In each case, keep
+@@ -218,8 +220,9 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+ # The exim binary is handled specially
+
+ if [ $name = exim${EXE} ]; then
+- version=exim-`./exim -bV -C /dev/null | \
+- awk '/Exim version/ { OFS=""; print $3,"-",substr($4,2,length($4)-1) }'`${EXE}
++ version=exim
++# version=exim-`./exim -bV -C /dev/null | \
++# awk '/Exim version/ { OFS=""; print $3,"-",substr($4,2,length($4)-1) }'`${EXE}
+
+ if [ "${version}" = "exim-${EXE}" ]; then
+ echo $com ""