On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 00:21 -0700, email builder wrote:
Hello,
When building from source, is it possible to use "make install" to switch between version 1.x and 2.x on the same machine (just for testing)?
I do that all the time.
Do both versions install the same binaries?
No, but as long as you don't use the other one's extra binaries it doesn't matter.
Is configuration from 2.x backward compatible with 1.x? (so we can have the newest configuration files on our system without bothering to have a second set of 1.x config files)
v2.0 can read most v1.x config files, but it'll give a lot of warnings about it. Their default configs are anyway in different locations. I just keep them both:
v1.x: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf v2.x: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
Or instead should we be changing something like the installation and config directorie for one of the versions when we install it (how?).
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-2.0