[Dovecot] Compiling Dovecot with-notify=inotify

[Nicolas STRANSKY]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile Dovecot beta2 with inotify support, but this is
unsuccessfull.

First, it seems that the configure script is looking for inotify.h in
/usr/include/sys, whereas it is in /usr/include/linux on my Debian Sarge
system. But that's a minor point, let's make a symlink.

% dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/inotify.h
linux-kernel-headers: /usr/include/linux/inotify.h

% dpkg -l linux-kernel-headers
ii  linux-kernel-headers    2.6.13+0rc3-2           Linux Kernel Headers
for development

Then the compilation fails with the following error :

i386-linux-gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2
-Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o
auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o
auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o
auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o
db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o
mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o
mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o
passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o
passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o
passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o
userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o
userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic  libpassword.a
../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a
../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -L/usr/lib -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto
-lcom_err -lresolv -lldap -lpq /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so -lz -ldl
../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x185): In function
`io_loop_notify_add':
/home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:102:
undefined reference to `inotify_add_watch'
../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x26d): In function
`io_loop_notify_remove':
/home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:145:
undefined reference to `inotify_rm_watch'
../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x2de): In function
`io_loop_notify_handler_init':
/home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:163:
undefined reference to `inotify_init'


Am I missing something ? What should be done to compile Dovecot with
inotify support ?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Nico
L'homme est intelligent parce qu'il a une main.
	-+- Anaxagore -+-