[Dovecot] issues/workarounds to build dovecot on OSX

hi all,

a few notes/issues re: building dovecot on OSX.

first, after DL of cvs-head,

% autogen.sh

reports:

autogen.sh: line 2: libtoolize: command not found

o OSX, 'libtoolize' has been sed'd to glibtoolize.

couple of ways to deal with this:

(a) edit in autogen.sh

	aclocal
---	libtoolize --force
+++	glibtoolize --force
automake --add-missing
	autoheader
	autoconf

(b) run

% autoreconf -i -f

instead

(c) i suppose yout can link:

% ln -s /usr/bin/glibtoolize /usr/bin/libtoolize

imho, too 'kludgy' ... never tried it.

(d) put some sort of conditional in autogen.sh ... many options of course

e.g.:

HOSTTYPE=`uname`
if [ "$HOSTTYPE" == "Darwin" ]; then
        LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize
else
        LIBTOOLIZE=libtoolize
fi

fwiw, i'm using (b) -->

% autoreconf -i -f

successfully.

next, dovecot's ./configure fails at the check for openssl:

...
checking whether va_lists can be copied by value... yes
./configure: line 27241: syntax error near unexpected token `SSL,'
./configure: line 27241: `    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SSL, openssl)'
%

within a pkg-config stanza ...

as pkg-config does not exist on OSX, a couple of hacks in 'configure.in':

===================================================
(EDITOR) configure.in
@1032
	if test "$want_openssl" = "yes" && test "$have_ssl" = "no"; then
---	  if pkg-config --exists openssl; then
+++	if test -f openssl; then
---	    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SSL, openssl)
	    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SSL_CFLAGS"
===================================================

, followed, of course, by another:

% autoreconf -i -f

take care of the problem.

with changes as above, 'configure' with:

./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/dovecot \
--exec-prefix=/usr/local/dovecot \
--bindir=/usr/local/dovecot/bin \
--sbindir=/usr/local/dovecot/sbin \
--libexecdir=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec \
--libdir=/usr/local/dovecot/lib \
--includedir=/usr/local/dovecot/include \
--sysconfdir=/var/Settings/Dovecot \
--localstatedir=/var/Process \
--mandir=/var/Documentation/man \
--datadir=/var/Data/Dovecot \
--with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/usr/local \
--with-rundir=/var/Process/dovecot \
--with-moduledir=/usr/local/dovecot-modules \
--enable-shared \
--enable-static \
--enable-ipv6 \
--with-pgsql \
--disable-debug

completes sueccessfully, as do:

make
make check
make install

resulting in:

% ls -aR
	.:
	.  ..  libexec  sbin
	
	./libexec:
	.  ..  dovecot
	
	./libexec/dovecot:
	.   checkpassword-reply  dovecot-auth  imap-login  pop3-login
	..  deliver              imap          pop3        rawlog
	
	./sbin:
	.  ..  dovecot  dovecotpw

as, i believe, expected.

now, onward!

cheers,

richard