Re: [Dovecot] Compile failure (alpha 5, MySQL 5)

Tom Sommer wrote:

/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x50): In function sha1_result': : multiple definition of sha1_result' ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o)(.text+0x820):/usr/local/src/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib/sha1.c:233: first defined here /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `sha1_result' changed from 158 in ../lib/liblib.a(sha1.o) to 316 in /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(sha1.o) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Dovecot's sha1_result function collides with mysql's. You could try renaming all occurences of sha1_result in Dovecot's source files with something else (like dovecot_sh1a_result).