hi
i downloaded dovecot-1.0.beta1.tar.gz, did a rpmbuild -ta dovecot-1.0.beta1.tar.gz (which uses the dovecot.spec from the tar.gz), and got the following:
Making install in quota
make[3]: Entering directory
/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota' make[4]: Entering directory /usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota'
mkdir -p -- /usr/lib/dovecot/imap /usr/lib/dovecot/lda
mkdir: cannot create directory /usr/lib/dovecot': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory /usr/lib/dovecot': Permission denied
make[4]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/gimre/rpm2/BUILD/dovecot-1.0.beta1/src/plugins/quota'
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
so everything did compile alright, but it has some problems with installing the plugins. and i dunno why it tries to create those directories in the root directory. of course i'm compiling it as a non-root users, so it doesn't have any write permissions. and it normally shouldn't have to do an install in directories other then buildroot.
so what's the catch? if i disable from the src/Makefile.in to not compile the plugins, everything works fine, i got a nice rpm file. i'm on Fedora Core 4.
any help would be appreciated. thx.