Re: Building on FreeBSD 14.4

On 2026-05-17 16:59, Frank Volf via dovecot wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange
error message.

[...]

  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

The Dovecot ports use gmake, so you probably need to install and use the GNU bintools (gmake, m4, autoconf, etc.) to build it manually.

Also, the PR Michael Grimm posted contains a skeleton for a Dovecot 2.4 port. You might try that instead.