Overall the build process for dovecot is very clean. I did however run into a significant problem when it came to locating the mysql libraries, especially when building a 64 bit executable but similar problems occured building a 32 bit executable. I am describing the 64 bit build issues below since that is the worst case scenario. Fixing the 64 bit build will automatically fix the 32 bit build.

In the Solaris world it is fairly common for software packages to be installed in the /opt tree rather than under /usr or /usr/local. In addition 64 bit libs are typically located under a path like /opt/lib/64 or /opt/lib/sparcv9 and of course mysql libs are under /opt/lib/mysql or /opt/lib/sparcv9 | 64/mysql. The configure script for dovecot tries only a lib64 or /usr/lib64 path

I suggest that the conifgure script for dovecot offer a --with-mysql[=DIR] option so that it would be possible to provide the base location of the mysql installation as --with-mysql=/opt in the same manner that it is done for php.

I patched the configure script to search the /opt tree for mysql but unfortunately a side effect occured during the build which was compiled as 64 bit with the necessary CFLAGS and LDFLAGS input to the configure script.

Here is the configure. Note that the library search paths also include the Solaris specific sparcv9 paths so nothing special is required in the configure script to account for these platform specific paths. This is exactly the same method the we use to build php as a 64 bit app successfully. However, the configrue script needs to locate the /opt/include/mysql directory and also needs to find /opt/lib/mysql to at least trigger that it found the mysql installation. Even though /opt/lib/mysql is the path to the 32 bit library, the link tests will pass because the supplied LDFLAGS contain the path to the 64 bit library.

CFLAGS="-O3 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -L/opt/lib/sparcv9 -L/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql -R/opt/lib/sparcv9 -R/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql" \
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -L/opt/lib/sparcv9 -L/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql -R/opt/lib/sparcv9 -R/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql" \
LDFLAGS="-O3 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -L/opt/lib/sparcv9 -L/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql -R/opt/lib/sparcv9 -R/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql" \
./configure --prefix=/opt \
--localstatedir=/var \
--enable-shared \
--disable-static \
--libdir=/opt/lib/sparcv9 \
--with-ssldir=/opt/ssl \
--with-ssl=openssl \
--with-storages=maildir,mbox \
--with-mysql

The next problem was that dovecot-auth failed to link:

/bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -L/opt/lib/sparcv9 -R/opt/lib/sparcv9 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/opt/include -export-dynamic -O3 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -L/opt/lib/sparcv9 -R/opt/lib/sparcv9 -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-sia.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lpam -L -L/opt/lib/mysql -L/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -export-dynamic -ldl -lsocket -lnsl -lrt
mkdir .libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/opt/include -O3 -m64 -mcpu=ultrasparc -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-sia.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -L/opt/lib/sparcv9 libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lpam -L/db/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.rc17_64bit/src/auth -L/opt/lib/mysql -L/opt/lib/sparcv9/mysql /opt/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so -L/opt/lib -lposix4 -lgen -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lm -ldl -lsocket -lnsl -lrt -R/opt/lib/mysql -R/opt/lib/mysql -R/opt/lib/sparcv9
ld: fatal: file /opt/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to dovecot-auth

What is odd about the above is that the input to libtool is completely correct but the resulting gcc command converted -lmysqlclient to an absolute path of /opt/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so which is wrong for a 64 bit build - hence the link failure. Why this happened is a mystery to me? If it had been left alone as -lmysqlclient the link would have been successful because the correct 64 bit library would have been found automatically.

To get around this problem I added -lmysqlclient to the LDFLAGS input to the configure script which works but isn't very conventional.

It would be much cleaner if the --with-mysql had a [=DIR] option and the configure script used the same basic logic that is used in the php configure script for locating the mysql stuff. In addition it is essential that hard paths, especially to shared objects don't get generated during the build since that will block the automatic searching of libraries.

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