[Dovecot] autogen.sh fails -> "required file `./config.rpath' not found"

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2007-11-28 10:29:26 -0800, snowcrash wrote:
> > the real solution would be to copy the config.rpath [1] from your distro
> > into the source dir. this requires the gettext devel files to be
> > installed.
> 
> i'm not using nls/gettext.  afaict, it's not even mentioned (in
> configure, doc, INSTALL, etc) as an option.  then, gettext shouldn't
> be a requirement (even though it's installed on my system ...).
> 
> the point is, the check for the file is there, but the file is not
> included. autogen.sh
>  *would* copy it if i spec'd the location of my gettext in
> /usr/local/share (odd that the check wouldn't be for 'standard'
> locations ... ), but, again, why's it asked for?
> 
> > now the question is when using the 1.1b9 tarball.
> > why do you run autogen.sh at all?
> 
> i'm not using the tarball -- rather
> 
>   hg clone -r1.1.beta9 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot
> 
> instructions, of course, are:
> 
> "If you got Dovecot from Mercurial, for instance with
> 
>  ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> hg clone http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/
> ---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> you will first need to run './autogen.sh' to generate the 'configure'
> script and some other files."

it wasnt me who brought that shit into the autotools. but i would not
hackaround with empty files in that area.

just my 2 cents,

    darix

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