[Dovecot] crypt missing (configure problem)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Mar 16 17:11:58 EET 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:06 +0100, Fabio Busatto wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:47:11PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:28 +0100, Fabio Busatto wrote:
> > > It seems to be a wrong check in configure, that comes out in a fatal
> > > error (crypt symbol not found because the -lcrypt is omitted).
> > ..
> > > OS: linux
> > 
> > What distribution? I haven't before heard of any OS/distro requiring
> > -lcrypt.
> 
> Uhm, Linux/Slackware :)
> But it's not Slackware specific (I can confirm for Fedora too), you already
> check for crypt in libcrypt in other configure passes (infact if you include
> some other auth system, configure includes libcrypt correctly in the build
> process).
> 
> I know that crypt() is in libcrypt in all glibc based systems.

Oh, sorry. :) I didn't remember that and looking through configure.in I
somehow missed the -lcrypt check and only saw -lcrypto checks. Fixed:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008211.html

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