[Dovecot] compiling dovecot-sieve

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:50:48AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 10:47 +1300, Fintec wrote:
> > Our server is an CentOS4.4 box and we use the atrpms built RPMs for
> > installing dovecot. I am wanting to use the sieve plug-in so I've
> > followed the dovecot wiki instructions, downloaded the files from CVS,
> > but I'm not sure what configure options to use. When I try without any
> > options I get: 
> > 
> > dovecot-config not found from /usr/src/dovecot-sieve, use
> > --with-dovecot=PATH
> > to give path to compiled Dovecot sources
> > 
> > I tried using "./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/libexec/dovecot" but get
> > the same problem.
> 
> You'll need to have Dovecot sources somewhere, and you must have run at
> least "configure" script for them. And preferrably you should also be
> running Dovecot installed from those sources, since if the binary
> package was built with different options the Sieve plugin might just
> crash..

There is already a request & patch to add that to the packages:

http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=904

There are two paths:

a) Like the patch above, build both in one sweep
b) Have the main dovecot tarball install files (headers,
   dovecot-config etc) for developing against dovecot.

The advantage of a) is that it can be done right away. The advantages
of b) are longer-term: It decouples the builds of dovecot vs sieve,
and thus allows to have a faster (or different) development cycle for
sieve, e.g. a) implies rebuilding all dovecot packages for any change
in the sieve sources.

And if another extension/plugin requires dovecot's development files
and lives external to dovecot it will require the same handling making
b) even more worth while.

There is also

c) Upstream (Timo) doesn't yet want to see dovecot-sieve distributed
   in packages because he considers it not ready yet and will merge
   the dovecot-sieve sources into dovecot proper when he things it's
   ready.

:)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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