[Dovecot] Install from source of dovecot 1.1.2

Bruce Bodger bbodger at bodcon.com
Sun Aug 10 19:57:20 EEST 2008


On Aug 10, 2008, at 12:50 PM, John and Catherine Allen wrote:

> Guy wrote:
>> I have what I'm sure is a stupid question. I'm trying to install
>> Dovecot 1.1.2 from source and my command sequence is this:
>> cd dovecot-1.1.2
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --with-mysql
>> --with-storagesmaildir --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot
>> make
>> make install
>> cd ../dovecot-sieve-1.1.5
>> ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-1.1.2
>> make
>> make install

It is recommended to use...

'sudo make install'

...in both places.


B. Bodger




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