Hi Andreas,
sorry to hear that you didn't had much luck so far to solve the issue. I just tested to run the supplied autogen.sh on a freshly checked out metadata plugin tree, and had no issues.
Somehow it seems to me that you might miss some important development files like some 3rd party .m4 files defining certain macros for autoconf.
Can you please tell me the versions of autoconf, automake, m4, libtool you are using and paste me the output of following commands?
Please provide the information for the debian host where it actually builds and for one of the other hosts where it fails to build.
grep -rn "AC_PROG_CC_C99" /usr/share/auto*
that particular macro should be found in something like /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/c.m4
find /usr/share/ -name "dovecot.m4"
Actually I am nearly sure that you are missing the 'dovecot.m4' file, which is installed at '/usr/share/aclocal/dovecot.m4' on my test host.
I bet the debian host is having the 'dovecot.m4' installed and the others don't have it, because after renaming the 'dovecot.m4' here I ran into the very same issue you have ;)
bash-4.2# mv /usr/share/aclocal/dovecot.m4{,.orig} bash-4.2# ./autogen.sh libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
- creating m4/ ...
- running autoreconf ...
libtoolize: copying file ./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, m4'.
libtoolize: copying file m4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file m4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file m4/lt~obsolete.m4' src/Makefile.am:33: DOVECOT_PLUGIN_DEPS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL src/Makefile.am:41: DOVECOT_PLUGIN_DEPS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL src/Makefile.am:10: dovecot_pkglib_LTLIBRARIES' is
used but dovecot_pkglibdir' is undefined src/Makefile.am:13: variable libdovecot_metadata_la_SOURCES' is defined but no program or
src/Makefile.am:13: library has `libdovecot_metadata_la' as canonical
name (possible typo) autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
So now we only need to find why the file was not installed on your "failing hosts".
How did you compiled and installed dovecot on those?
As I am compiling/installing dovecot from sources using the provided autotools infrastructure which seems to install the needed 'dovecot.m4', I suppose you ran into an issue with the (S)RPMs provided for your SLES version. For example it is simply not installing the file because RPM is such a "marvelous" packaging system forcing package maintainers to specify what to install instead of simply relying on the way provided by the author to simply run 'make install'. Another reason could be that you simply missed to install the 'dovecot-devel' package, which should install the 'dovecot.m4'. At least in the case of Fedora that seems to be the case.
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/dovecot.git/tree/dovecot.spec#n444
Cheers Chris
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:56:20 +0200 Andreas Schulze andreas.schulze@datev.de wrote:
Hello,
I can compile metadata plugin using debian squeeze + wheezy. But build on suse enterprise server 9,10 and 11 failed.
The metadata plugin require autoconf-2.65 which i too new. On the other side I can build the dovecot-2.2.4 and pigeonhole-0.4.0 plugin without problems: dovecot require autoconf-2.59 and pigeonhole does not require any specific autoconf version.
I asked the authors of the plugin for support but got no response. Maybe somebody could review the plugin.
Thanks Andreas