Re: [Dovecot] a <blush> build/install question

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 13:04 -0400, Stewart Dean wrote:

but it looks to me like you're compiling on your production machine, no? Which I have decided not to do, since leaving a compiler on them means that people that manage to break in can do nastier things....

I didn't read your original mail completely, but it's also possible to do something like this:

./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot-<version> make make DESTDIR=/tmp/dovecot install cd /tmp/dovecot tar cf dovecot.tar dovecot*

Then untar it in production machine's /