Hi -- I am trying to compile 2.2 (acd76b5272e9) at FreeBSD 9.0: | libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src/lib -I/usr/local/include -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes \ -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 \ -Wbad-function-cast -fno-builtin-strftime -Wstrict-aliasing=2 \ -I/usr/local/include -MT fs-posix.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/fs-posix.Tpo \ -c fs-posix.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/fs-posix.o | fs-posix.c: In function 'fs_posix_prefetch': | fs-posix.c:298: warning: implicit declaration of function 'posix_fadvise' | fs-posix.c:298: error: 'POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED' undeclared (first use in this function) | fs-posix.c:298: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once | fs-posix.c:298: error: for each function it appears in.) | gmake[3]: *** [fs-posix.lo] Error 1 | gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2/src/lib-fs' | gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2/src' | gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/SOURCE/dovecot-2.2' | gmake: *** [all] Error 2 From configure logfile: | checking for posix_fadvise... no After a modification (stolen from src/lib-storage/index/index-mail.c) ... | --- dovecot-2.2-modified/src/lib-fs/fs-posix.c 2012-10-23 20:27:31.348919455 +0200 | +++ dovecot-2.2/src/lib-fs/fs-posix.c 2012-10-23 20:26:39.435300269 +0200 | @@ -295,10 +295,12 @@ | return TRUE; | } | | +#if defined(HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE) && defined(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) | if (posix_fadvise(file->fd, 0, length, POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) < 0) { | i_error("posix_fadvise(%s) failed: %m", _file->path); | return TRUE; | } | +#endif | return FALSE; | } ... the compilations runs to completion, and dovecot-2.2 UNSTABLE is running. But: I do not have the knowledge to judge if that "fix" will be the right one. Just to let you know and with regards, Michael