Interesting, that just before you guys replied, I found the solution, and was about to email it to the list!
I think that this problem is related to these automake warnings:
automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file
../map.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file../imparse.c' is in subdirectory
It is directly related to these warning!
tim@mafeking:~/src/dovecot-lda$ ./autogen.sh
configure.in: 4: automake requires AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not AC_CONFIG_HEADER' configure.in: 11: automake requires AM_PROG_LEX', not AC_PROG_LEX' automake: configure.in: installing ./install-sh'
automake: configure.in: installing ./mkinstalldirs' automake: configure.in: installing ./missing'
automake: Makefile.am: installing ./INSTALL' configure.in: 4: required file ./[lda-config.h].in' not found
automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file
../map.c' is in subdirectory automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: not supported: source file ../imparse.c' is in subdirectory
automake: src/libsieve/Makefile.am: lex source seen but
AC_DECL_YYTEXT' not in configure.in'
automake: configure.in: installing `src/libsieve/ylwrap'
Automake version is 1.4. I upgraded to 1.8 and (on clean src again) I get the following.
tim@mafeking:~/src/dovecot-lda$ ./autogen.sh
configure.in: installing ./install-sh' configure.in: installing ./missing'
Makefile.am: installing ./INSTALL' src/Makefile.am: installing ./depcomp'
configure.in: installing `./ylwrap'
make && make install work fine!
So I'm not sure if we need to ensure people use automake1.8, or if something can be changed so that it works with automake1.4.
Tim
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