Re: configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work

On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, zahn wrote:

I changed our old gcc compiler from the version: gcc-4.1.2-13.fc6 to the newer one: gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC). Then I wanted to compile: Dovecot 2.3.7 and I get the following error with ./configure ... checking whether fd passing works... no configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work

An earlier post by me and James Lee pointed out this problem on a different platform but maybe it has the same cause. Try configuring with "--disable-hardening" and see if that works.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>