Re: Compiling Dovecot 2.4 on OpenBSD

 On 21/01/2026 19:39 EET Stuart Henderson via dovecot
 <[1]dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:


 On 2026/01/21 13:31, Aki Tuomi wrote:

   I testbuilt dovecot on openbsd 7.7, and was able to fix some of the
   issues. I didn't run into the test-regex problem though. Please see

   [2]https://github.com/dovecot/core/compare/f8dcc0ddbf8772f89d4bb3650a95aa98ab3b0907%5E...1c6b67195d279836d94e141215c626c20af93af6.patch

 That does help.

 You'll see the test-regex problem if you pkg_add pcre2 before building.
 Same occurs whether autoconf auto-detects the library path or whether
 you set it yourself via LDFLAGS when running configure.

 There's also an issue if you pkg_add xapian-core and don't disable
 flatcurve; xapian/error.h wants to pull in the C++ <version> header,
 but presence of the "version" file in Dovecot's source tree (pulled
 in via -I flags) shadows it, resulting in the error below. This is
 not seen if you do an out-of-source-tree build.

I did install pcre2 before and saw it being detected by configure. I'll check the version thing, oddly it does not impact anything on Linux.

Aki

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