[Dovecot] problems compiling

[Mario Nigrovic-rvvk40]

I also run/compile Dovecot as a non-root user.  What I think you want to do, instead of just moving the modules, is to provide a "--prefix" which will be the parent directory of bin, sbin, etc ...  all the subdirectories where files will be installed.

My exact configure line is

./configure --prefix=/home/mario/tools/SunOS --with-gnu-ld=/_TOOLS_/dist/gnu-gcc-3.2.2-binutils-2.13.2.1/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ld --enable-shared --disable-nls --disable-ipv6 --enable-debug --without-vpopmail --without-pop3d

So all files get installed in my /home/mario/tools/SunOS tree.  I then start dovecot with

/home/mario/tools/SunOS/sbin/dovecot

					Mario
Imre Gergely wrote:
> 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.