[Dovecot] problems compiling

[Imre Gergely]

the same happens, now with this directory:

Making install in quota
make[3]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota'
mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/lda
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/dovecot': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/dovecot': Permission denied
make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1

i think it has something to do with some DESTDIR variable. i don't know
exactly, but take a look at this:

Making install in pop3
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/pop3'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/pop3'
test -z "/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta1/usr/libexec/dovecot" || mkdir -p --
"/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta1/usr/libexec/dovecot"
  /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c 'pop3'
'/var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta1/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3'
/usr/bin/install -c pop3 /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta1/usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.

it should install the plugins in /var/tmp/root-dovecot.../usr/lib/dovecot too.
so builddir is /usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1 (rpmbuild creates
this), and installdir (destdir) is in /var/tmp/root-dovecot-1.0.beta1, where
make install should put all the files to be installed. i found this in the
ChangeLog also:

2005-12-10 22:25  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>

        * src/: lib-dict/Makefile.am, plugins/imap-quota/Makefile.am,
          plugins/quota/Makefile.am, plugins/trash/Makefile.am: Added
          missing header files. Fixed plugin install hooks to use DESTDIR.

somehow it doesn't work for me.


John Gray wrote:
> Try adding:
> 
>  --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules
> 
> when calling configure.  That fixed this for me.
> 
> It seems to me when need to fix the default value of moduledir to not
> confilict with the libdir (or libexecdir).
> 
> John
> 
> Imre Gergely wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> i downloaded dovecot-1.0.beta1.tar.gz, did a rpmbuild -ta
>> dovecot-1.0.beta1.tar.gz (which uses the dovecot.spec from the tar.gz), and got
>> the following:
>>
>> Making install in quota
>> make[3]: Entering directory
>> `/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota'
>> make[4]: Entering directory
>> `/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota'
>> mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/lda
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/dovecot': Permission denied
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/dovecot': Permission denied
>> make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1
>> make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota'
>> make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
>>
>> so everything did compile alright, but it has some problems with installing the
>> plugins. and i dunno why it tries to create those directories in the root
>> directory. of course i'm compiling it as a non-root users, so it doesn't have
>> any write permissions. and it normally shouldn't have to do an install in
>> directories other then buildroot.
>>
>> so what's the catch? if i disable from the src/Makefile.in to not compile the
>> plugins, everything works fine, i got a nice rpm file. i'm on Fedora Core 4.
>>
>> any help would be appreciated. thx.
>>
>>   
> 
> 

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Imre Gergely
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