[Dovecot] patching dovecot for sieve/managesieve support, centos 5.6?

[Stephan Bosch]

Op 3-11-2011 6:31, Scott Lewis schreef:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having real trouble when attempting to patch dovecot 1.2 to include the Pidgeonhole sieve support on my CentOS 5.6 x64 mail server. I am relatively new to the programming side of linux, but I am not having a lot of luck when trying to get this thing to compile.
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> [root at mail ~]# whereis dovecot
> dovecot: /usr/sbin/dovecot /etc/dovecot.conf /usr/lib/dovecot /usr/libexec/dovecot /usr/share/man/man8/dovecot.8.gz
>
> [root at mail dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.19]# ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot
>
> ...
>
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> dovecot-config not found from /usr/lib/dovecot, 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
>
> --
>
> I get this message regardless of whether I set --with-dovecot as /usr/sbin/dovecot, or /etc, or /usr/libexec/dovecot.

I'm not familiar with CentOS, but there usually is a separate package 
containing the Dovecot development headers and the dovecot-config file 
you need. By the looks of things, that is not installed at your end. 
Point the --with-dovecot to wherever the dovecot-config file is installed.

Regards,

Stephan.