[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install

[Scott Silva]

on 9-26-2008 1:28 PM tonj spake the following:
> I'm using Fedora 9
> I downloaded dovecot-1.1.3.tar.gz and extracted it. I then opened a 
> terminal in the extracted window. Your install instructions say:
> 
> For most people, the usual:
>  ./configure
>  make
>  sudo make install
> 
> but when I did them I got
> 
> [root at mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# ./configure
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl.exe... no
> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> [root at mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# make
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> 
> [root at mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# sudo make install
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> [root at mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]#
> 
> can you tell me why the install won't work? thanks for any advice.
> 
Did you try yum install dovecot?



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