[Dovecot] Vpopmail Dynamic Authentication Module

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.8.2012, at 16.42, Eric Sisolak wrote:

> I had to modify the command to build the module, but was able to
> successfully build it:
> gcc -shared -fPIC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DUSERDB_VPOPMAIL -DPASSDB_VPOPMAIL
> -I../.. -I../lib -I/home/vpopmail/include -I/home/vpopmail/lib
> userdb-vpopmail.c passdb-vpopmail.c -o vpopmail.so
> -L/home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a

-L means a path, pointing it to .a file doesn't do anything useful. By giving the .a file directly probably also fails if libvpopmail.a hasn't been built with -fPIC.

> /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/vpopmail.so: undefined symbol: vclose

And that's the reason this fails, because libvpopmail isn't included in vpopmail.so.