[Dovecot] Unable to build dovecot 2.0.8 on Ubuntu Server 9.10

[Robert Gabriel]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 05:55, David Warden <warden at geneseo.edu> wrote:
> Based on the "i486" in your libtool line, could you be experiencing this
> problem:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1445395
>
> Basically it looks like there's an issue with glibc 2.10 on 32-bit systems
> causing a problem when linking fallocate64. Not if you can/need to apt-get
> upgrade or dist-upgrade to fix.

I can't upgrade the server, if I could so easily I would have done
long time ago.
Also upgrading is not a fix, version 2.0.6 works on Ubuntu 9.10.

>
> -David Warden
>
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:57:52 +0100, Robert Gabriel <robert at linux-source.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to build dovecot version 2.0.8, but I always end-up with
>> this error:
>>
>>
>> libtool: link: i486-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -mtune=prescott
>> -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes
>> -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2
>> -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -o .libs/anvil main.o
>> anvil-connection.o anvil-settings.o connect-limit.o penalty.o
>> -Wl,--export-dynamic  ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so -ldl
>> -lrt -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/applications/dovecot-mail/lib/dovecot
>> ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so: undefined reference to
>> `fallocate64'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[3]: *** [anvil] Error 1
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/build/source/dovecot-2.0.8/src/anvil'
>> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/build/source/dovecot-2.0.8/src'
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/build/source/dovecot-2.0.8'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
>