[Dovecot] dovecot cores

[Tamsy]

dovecot at freakout.de wrote the following on 12.10.2012 13:50:
> According to Timo Sirainen:
>> On 11.10.2012, at 9.43, dovecot at freakout.de wrote:
>>
>> Dovecot code is calling str_to_time() from libmysqlclient,
>> instead of from Dovecot's internal code.
>> Not the first time mysql conflicted with Dovecot code.
>> This could be worked around, but .. why is your dovecot
>> binary linked with libmysqlclient?
>> Only auth and dict binaries should be.
>>
> but dovecot's configure script does not allow to specify the
> mysql libs and headers explictly - only by global CPPFLAGS and
> LDFLAGS extensions, which are used for all binaries - when i
> tried to specify:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --sysconfdir=/etc/dovecot --mandir=/opt/dovecot/man \
> 	--docdir=/opt/dovecot/doc --libexecdir=/opt/dovecot/sbin --datadir=/opt/dovecot \
> 	--with-rundir=/var/dovecot/run --with-statedir=/var/dovecot/state \
> 	--with-mysql=/opt/mysql/bin/mysql_config
> checking for ...
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> configure: error: --with-mysql=path not supported. You may want to use instead:
> CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/mysql/bin/mysql_config/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/mysql/bin/mysql_config/lib ./configure --with-mysql
>
> i followed the hint from the configure script above and run
> into the core-dumps due to symbol clash str_to_time.
>
> How to work around with mysql in non-standard location?
>
> Thanks
> Axel

This one works for me for mysql in a non-standard location (my.cnf is in 
/etc):

CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/mysql/include/mysql' LDFLAGS='-L/opt/mysql/lib/mysql 
-lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm' ./configure --with-mysql .....

Rds
Tamsy