[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.2.1 for Dovecot v2.0.4

[Juan C. Blanco]

On 28/10/2010 20:49, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 10:24 +0200, Juan C. Blanco wrote:
>> On 27/10/2010 20:16, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 19:05 +0200, Juan C. Blanco wrote:
>>>> I've dounloaded the archive for pigeonhole, once decompressed:
>>>>
>>>> If I do:
>>>> ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-2.0.5
>>>> make
>>>>
>>>> All seems to work fine
>>>>
>>>> But if I do (like the atrpms package spec):
>>>> autoreconf -ifv
>>>> ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot-2.0.5
>>>> make
>>>>
>>>> I get the error:
>>>
>>> I checked the pigeonhole specfiles at ATrpms, but could not find any
>>> such call, the %build part has been
>>>
>>> %build
>>> ## crude hack ...
>>> #./autogen.sh
>>> %configure --with-dovecot=%{_libdir}/dovecot \
>>>     --with-managesieve=yes \
>>>     --enable-header-install=yes \
>>>     INSTALL_DATA="install -c -p -m644"
>>> make
>>>
>>> for quite some time now.
>>>
>>
>> Thans, I've seen so, but I have a question does not will be necessary to
>> do it?, the configure was generated by a version of autoconf newer than
>> the one in CentOS and dows not it may cause problems to use it as is.
>
> It doesn't matter, autotools, the collection of autoconf, automake,
> libtool and gettext are only needed when preparing the sources for
> shipping, e.g. they are (normally) not needed for builds. Normally means
> unless you change any configure.ac, Makefile.am, *.m4 files that these
> tools need as an input for generating the build system files.
>
> So you don't need to run autoreconf. But if you do need to run it (which
> I also had to yesterday while chasing for a bug), you sometimes need to
> nuke away some files, especially if your autotools are older that the
> authors', so try
>
> rm -f m4/lt* m4/libtool.m4 build-aux/ltmain.sh
> autoreconf -fiv
> ./configure ...
>
> And that should work on CentOS5. But as said, you don't need it. I added
> the two lines above in the latest dovecot-pigeonhole rpm (commented) to
> allow future users to easily enable rebuilding of the autotools bit.

OK, thanks for the the explanation I'm not a developer as yu can see :-)


>
> Also note that there are fresh rpms for CentOS at ATrpms. :)

Yes, thanks a lot for keeping it

Regards
Jua C. Blanco

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