Re: Building on FreeBSD 14.4

18 May 2026

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On 18/05/2026 02:59 EEST Frank Volf via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange
error message.
What I did is download and extract dovecot-2.4.4.tar.gz and then run
./configure without any arguments.
After typing make the build started without any problems until this point:
....
Making all in auth
   CC       test_auth_cache-auth-cache.o
   CC       test_auth_cache-test-auth-cache.o
   CC       auth-main.o
   CC       auth-auth.o
   CC       auth-auth-cache.o
   CC       auth-auth-client-connection.o
   CC       auth-auth-master-connection.o
   CC       auth-auth-policy.o
   CC       auth-auth-penalty.o
   CC       auth-auth-request.o
   CC       auth-auth-request-fields.o
   CC       auth-auth-request-handler.o
   CC       auth-auth-request-var-expand.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-apop.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-dovecot-token.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-oauth2.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl.o
   CC       auth-auth-settings.o
   CC       auth-auth-fields.o
   CC       auth-auth-token.o
   CC       auth-auth-worker-connection.o
   CC       auth-auth-worker-server.o
   CC       auth-db-oauth2.o
   CC       auth-db-sql.o
   CC       auth-db-passwd-file.o
   CC       auth-passdb.o
   CC       auth-passdb-blocking.o
   CC       auth-passdb-bsdauth.o
   CC       auth-passdb-cache.o
   CC       auth-passdb-oauth2.o
   CC       auth-passdb-passwd.o
   CC       auth-passdb-passwd-file.o
   CC       auth-passdb-pam.o
   CC       auth-passdb-sql.o
   CC       auth-passdb-static.o
   CC       auth-userdb.o
   CC       auth-userdb-blocking.o
   CC       auth-userdb-passwd.o
   CC       auth-userdb-passwd-file.o
   CC       auth-userdb-prefetch.o
   CC       auth-userdb-static.o
   CC       auth-userdb-sql.o
   CC       auth-db-ldap.o
   CC       auth-db-ldap-sasl.o
   CC       auth-db-ldap-settings.o
   CC       auth-passdb-ldap.o
   CC       auth-userdb-ldap.o
   CC       auth-db-lua.o
   CC       auth-passdb-lua.o
   CC       auth-userdb-lua.o
make[3]: don't know how to make -L/usr/local/lib. Stop

make[3]: stopped making "all" in /home/volf/dovecot-2.4.4/src/auth
*** Error code 1
So, apparently make is confused and thinks that the compiler/linker
commandline option is an item to build.
I'm at loss how to solve this.
I would appreciate it, if somebody could give me a hint how to solve this.
Kind regards,
Frank
Hi,
I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange
error message.
What I did is download and extract dovecot-2.4.4.tar.gz and then run
./configure without any arguments.
After typing make the build started without any problems until this point:
 ....
 Making all in auth
   CC       test_auth_cache-auth-cache.o
   CC       test_auth_cache-test-auth-cache.o
   CC       auth-main.o
   CC       auth-auth.o
   CC       auth-auth-cache.o
   CC       auth-auth-client-connection.o
   CC       auth-auth-master-connection.o
   CC       auth-auth-policy.o
   CC       auth-auth-penalty.o
   CC       auth-auth-request.o
   CC       auth-auth-request-fields.o
   CC       auth-auth-request-handler.o
   CC       auth-auth-request-var-expand.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-apop.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-dovecot-token.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-oauth2.o
   CC       auth-auth-sasl.o
   CC       auth-auth-settings.o
   CC       auth-auth-fields.o
   CC       auth-auth-token.o
   CC       auth-auth-worker-connection.o
   CC       auth-auth-worker-server.o
   CC       auth-db-oauth2.o
   CC       auth-db-sql.o
   CC       auth-db-passwd-file.o
   CC       auth-passdb.o
   CC       auth-passdb-blocking.o
   CC       auth-passdb-bsdauth.o
   CC       auth-passdb-cache.o
   CC       auth-passdb-oauth2.o
   CC       auth-passdb-passwd.o
   CC       auth-passdb-passwd-file.o
   CC       auth-passdb-pam.o
   CC       auth-passdb-sql.o
   CC       auth-passdb-static.o
   CC       auth-userdb.o
   CC       auth-userdb-blocking.o
   CC       auth-userdb-passwd.o
   CC       auth-userdb-passwd-file.o
   CC       auth-userdb-prefetch.o
   CC       auth-userdb-static.o
   CC       auth-userdb-sql.o
   CC       auth-db-ldap.o
   CC       auth-db-ldap-sasl.o
   CC       auth-db-ldap-settings.o
   CC       auth-passdb-ldap.o
   CC       auth-userdb-ldap.o
   CC       auth-db-lua.o
   CC       auth-passdb-lua.o
   CC       auth-userdb-lua.o
 make[3]: don't know how to make -L/usr/local/lib. Stop

 make[3]: stopped making "all" in /home/volf/dovecot-2.4.4/src/auth
 *** Error code 1
So, apparently make is confused and thinks that the compiler/linker
commandline option is an item to build.
I'm at loss how to solve this.
I would appreciate it, if somebody could give me a hint how to solve this.
Kind regards,
Frank
Can you run make V=1 please? Shows what's going on.
Aki

Re: Building on FreeBSD 14.4

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