Dovecot fails to compile --with-cdb (and attempted fix)

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dovecot version: 2.2.15
> Tinycdb: 0.78
>
> I'm attempting to compile dovecot --with-cdb, but keep getting into a
> problem with cdb:
> ========================
> libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2
> -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2
> -Wl,--as-needed -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,/usr/local/lib/dovecot
> ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so: undefined reference to
> `cdb_read'
> ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so: undefined reference to
> `cdb_find'
> ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so: undefined reference to
> `cdb_free'
> ../../src/lib-dovecot/.libs/libdovecot.so: undefined reference to
> `cdb_init'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [anvil] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jf/dovecot-2.2.15/src/anvil'
> ==========================
>
> After some troubleshooting, I've finally managed to get dovecot to
> compile, albeit with a hack:
>
> --- src/lib-dovecot/Makefile.old    2015-03-09 17:36:15.690179802 +0000
> +++ src/lib-dovecot/Makefile    2015-03-09 18:01:43.075719700 +0000
> @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
>  LIBDOVECOT_STORAGE_DEPS = $(top_builddir)/src/lib-storage/
> libdovecot-storage.la $(top_builddir)/src/lib-imap-storage/
> libimap-storage.la
>  LIBICONV =
>  LIBOBJS =
> -LIBS = -lrt
> +LIBS = -lrt -lcdb
>  LIBTOOL = $(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool
>  LIBWRAP_LIBS =
>  LINKED_STORAGE_LDADD =
>
> This isn't the best fix, admittedly (I wish I were more familiar with
> autotools), but I'll say that the configure process isn't right yet for
> cdb. Can anybody produce a better fix? Would love to learn more.
>
>
ok, well I guess that "fixed" the compilation, but as I've just found out,
it does *not* link in libcdb (I've got libcdb in /usr/local/lib) properly!
Has anybody tried to compile dovecot with cdb support?

-jf


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