configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work

[Joseph Tam]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, zahn wrote:

> I changed our old gcc compiler from the version: gcc-4.1.2-13.fc6 to the 
> newer one: gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC). Then I wanted to compile: Dovecot 2.3.7 and I 
> get the following error with ./configure
> ...
> checking whether fd passing works... no
> configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work

An earlier post by me and James Lee pointed out this problem
on a different platform but maybe it has the same cause.
Try configuring with "--disable-hardening" and see if that
works.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>