I was asked by tschwinge to take a look at the install problems of exim4. For me it does not even build under kvm, it segfaults during tests, see below:
gcc-4.6.real (Debian 4.6.0-6) 4.6.1 20110428 (prerelease) running minimal functionality test for binary build-tree/build-exim4-daemon-light/exim in directory /home/srs/DEBs/exim/exim4-4.76/test Exim version 4.76 #1 built 15-May-2011 00:09:25 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.1.25: (January 28, 2011) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 2011-05-15 00:11:35 exim user lost privilege for using -C option debian/minimaltest: line 71: 21714 Segmentation fault $2 -C "$top/exim4.conf" -bV testsuite error make: *** [test-stamp] Error 1 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2