[Dovecot] dovecot ignoring config file contents -- istream.c problem?

[pavol marko]

Hello!

This is my first time trying to run dovecot so maybe I've overlooked
something, but I'm having a hard time running dovecot.

First of all, it's worth noting that I'm trying to run dovecot on an
embedded platform: the target architecture is mipsel; I have patches
for the 2.4.18 kernel with special support for the board so I'm still
using the 2.4.18 kernel. My C library is uClibc (I forget which
version; will look it up later). The compiler I'm using is GCC 2.96.

Anyway, after some struggling, I got dovecot to compile.

These are my configure options:

./configure --prefix=/home/marko/ovis/myfirm/tmp/ --build=i686-linux
--host=mipsel-uclibc-linux --disable-static --disable-rpath
--disable-ipv6 --with-pic --with-notify=none --without-shadow
--without-pam --with-checkpassword --without-bsdauth
--without-vpopmail --without-ssl --without-pop3d --without-docs

dovecot compiles and runs, but no matter what I put in dovecot.conf,
it says something like "SSL support not build in but ssl_disable=no".
I've even tried putting garbage into the config file (like hello=test
; on my desktop dovecot complains on that line, it is completly
ignored on my embedded device). But when I delete the config file,
dovecot complains.

So I've done some printf-debugging in lib-settings/settings.c, and
fount out that:
control flow reaches the line
input = i_stream_create_file(fd, default_pool, 2048, TRUE);

but then no single iteration of the while loop is executed.

Do you have any idea what could be wrong here? Any help is greatly
appreciated ! Thank you.

Pavol Marko