[Dovecot] Make install error

[Ben Morrow]

At  5PM +0800 on 15/05/13 you (kengheng) wrote:
> On 4/24/13 11:50 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:
> > At  1PM +0800 on 24/04/13 you (kengheng) wrote:
> >> Hi, I tried remove and make install, same err happended. I noticed from
> >> the log below, it first generate the
> >> "/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/auth" with checkpassword-reply, and it
> >> is success, the coming generation directory for auth at
> >> "/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/", it is weird that the make install
> >> generation for file auth and directory auth at same path. It is causing
> >> the issues.
> >>
> >> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot-2.2.1/src/auth'
> >> test -z "/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot" || /usr/bin/mkdir -p
> >> "/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot"
> >>     /bin/sh ../../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c auth
> >> checkpassword-reply '/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot'
> > These files should be installed under libexec; probably
> > /usr/local/dovecot/libexec/dovecot, though I'm not sure how autoconf
> > chooses the libexec directory when you're using an explicit prefix. What
> > do the following give you (in the top-level Dovecot source dir)?
> >
> >      grep ^libexecdir config.log
> >      grep ^exec_prefix config.log
> >      grep ^prefix config.log
> 
> grep ^libexecdir config.log
> libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
> 
> grep ^exec_prefix config.log
> exec_prefix='${prefix}'
> 
> grep ^prefix config.log
> prefix='/usr/local/dovecot'

That's weird, and wrong. Also, I can't reproduce it; if I run 

    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot
    grep ^libexec config.log

in the 2.2.1 tarball I get

    libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'

as I would have expected. Are you sure you didn't pass a --libexecdir
argument to configure?

Ben