building Dovecot in Debian 9

[Peter van der Does]

You might have to install the package default-libmysqlclient-dev from
the Debian repo.

Peter

On 4/25/17 1:37 PM, KT Walrus wrote:
> I’m trying to build Dovecot 2.2.29.1 in a Docker container today and have the following error in ./configure:
> 
> checking for shadow.h... yes
> checking for pam_start in -lpam... no
> checking for auth_userokay... no
> checking for mysql_config... mysql_config
> checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no
> configure: error: Can't build with MySQL support: libmysqlclient not found
> 
> #> find / -name libmysqlclient\*
> /usr/share/doc/libmysqlclient20
> /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libmysqlclient20
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.20.3.5
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.20
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libmysqlclient20:amd64.triggers
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libmysqlclient20:amd64.shlibs
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libmysqlclient20:amd64.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libmysqlclient20:amd64.md5sums
> 
> I have installed MySQL 5.7.18 Debian 9 packages (including the libmysqlclient-dev package) from the MySQL repo.
> 
> I’m not an expert, but is there a bug in the "./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-mysql”?
> 
> I’ve been building Dovecot with this Dockerfile using Ubuntu 16.04 for a while now without issue. Do I need some extra ./configure option to get it to find libmysqlclient.so.20?
> 
> Kevin
>