[Dovecot] PIGEON HOLE - am I being stupid?

[Erik Logtenberg]

You are missing the fact that the dovecot-config file is not the same as
your dovecot configuration directory. Check out your
/usr/local/lib/dovecot directory (or where ever your lib-directory is
located), you will find your dovecot-config file there.


corpus.defero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to compile dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.15 on a CENTOS 5 box. 
> 
> Using: ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/local/etc
> and with:
> 
> ls -Al /usr/local/etc/
> total 100
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49576 Apr  6 12:25 dovecot.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   410 Apr  6 12:25 dovecot-db-example.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   782 Apr  6 12:25 dovecot-dict-sql-example.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4986 Apr  6 12:25 dovecot-ldap-example.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5097 Apr  6 12:25 dovecot-sql-example.conf
> 
> But it bails with:
> 
> appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
> 
> dovecot-config not found from /usr/local/etc, use --with-dovecot=PATH
> to give path to compiled Dovecot sources or to a directory with the
> installed dovecot-config file.
> configure: error: dovecot-config not found
> 
> 
> What am I missing here?