[Dovecot] problem compiling pigeonhole + my fix

[Stephan Bosch]

Andreas Schulze wrote:
> hello,
> 
> yesterday I tried to package dovecot-2.0beta5 + pigeonhole from
> Mercurial repository. I put pigeonhole as a subdir in the dovecot
> sourcetree. Following
> http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole/raw-file/tip/INSTALL I
> called ./autogen.sh; ./configure --with-dovecot=..; make
> 
> In the buildprocess I saw this output ( from autogen.sh ): Putting
> files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `..'. libtoolize: `config.guess' exists:
> use `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use
> `--force' to overwrite libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force'
> to overwrite
> 
> I dont know *why* AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR is .. but in .. there are the
> mentioned files (from dovecot) already present. The following make
> failed with less helpfull errors.
> 

Hmm. This doesn't happen at my end, but:

http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/automake/Subpackages.html

> The purpose of the ‘AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])’ instruction is to force
> Automake and Autoconf to search for auxiliary scripts in the current
> directory. For instance, this means that there will be two copies of
> install-sh: one in the top-level of the arm package, and another one
> in the hand/  subdirectory for the hand package.
> 
> The historical default is to search for these auxiliary scripts in
> the parent directory and the grandparent directory. So if the
> ‘AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])’ line was removed from hand/configure.ac,
> that subpackage would share the auxiliary script of the arm package.
> This may looks like a gain in size (a few kilobytes), but it is
> actually a loss of modularity as the hand subpackage is no longer
> self-contained (‘make dist’ in the subdirectory will not work
> anymore).

This should fix it:

http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-2.0-pigeonhole/rev/48798f16daaf

Regards,

Stephan.