[Dovecot] a <blush> build/install question

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Mar 20 19:10:17 EET 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 13:04 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:
> 
> but it looks to me like you're compiling on your production machine, 
> no?  Which I have decided not to do, since leaving a compiler on them 
> means that people that manage to break in can do nastier things....

I didn't read your original mail completely, but it's also possible to
do something like this:

./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot-<version>
make
make DESTDIR=/tmp/dovecot install
cd /tmp/dovecot
tar cf dovecot.tar dovecot*

Then untar it in production machine's /

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