[Dovecot] a <blush> build/install question

[Stewart Dean]

Thanks Timo, that should do it.  As always, (as us boorish Americans 
might say), you da man!  Your patience and help are always the best.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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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