You definitely want gmake on FreeBSD. Also, I’m not sure if the post I sent made it through or not, but the patch I posted (for src/auth/Makefile.in) allowed me to compile cleanly (other than the "libtool: warning: Linking the shared library […]” warnings).
—Jeff
On May 18, 2026, at 18:59, Mel P via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
On 2026-05-17 16:59, Frank Volf via dovecot wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange error message. [...] make[3]: don't know how to make -L/usr/local/lib. Stop make[3]: stopped making "all" in /home/volf/dovecot-2.4.4/src/auth *** Error code 1
The Dovecot ports use gmake, so you probably need to install and use the GNU bintools (gmake, m4, autoconf, etc.) to build it manually.
Also, the PR Michael Grimm posted contains a skeleton for a Dovecot 2.4 port. You might try that instead.
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