Solved!

Probably fairly obvious, the clue is in the config.log here:

sendfile -L/opt/SUNWspro/lib -lCrun -lrt -L/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql

-R/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lz -lm >&5

ld: fatal: library -lCrun: not found

As I understand it, the OpenSolaris distribution of MySQL 5.1.30 is compiled with the Sun C Compiler, part of Sun Studio (now known as Oracle Solaris Studio) and it in fact is requiring a library from Sun Studio in order to compile against the MySQL client library.

I have now installed Oracle Solaris Studio by downloading the .tar.bz2 version of it, exploding all 1GB of it into /opt, and making the requisite symlink for SUNWspro as follows:

cd /opt ln -s SolarisStudio12.2-solaris-x86-tar-ML/solstudio12.2 SUNWspro

And now I can configure and build as follows:

./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --with-ldap --with-mysql make

There is no need to specify any environment variables such as CCFLAGS or what-have-you as mysql_config is already giving the right stuff to ./configure.

Ironically, this only builds when using gcc. If I specify CC=cc then I get the same error about libmysqlclient:

CC=cc ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --with-ldap --with-mysql ...snip... checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no configure: error: Can't build with MySQL support: libmysqlclient not found

Onwards and upwards. Jesse

On 12 June 2011 23:57, Jesse Reynolds jessedreynolds@gmail.com wrote:

Hello

I'm hoping someone can give me a pointer as to how to compile Dovecot with MySQL support on Solaris.

I am trying to compile dovecot 2.0.13 (also tried 2.0.9) on Solaris (OpenSolaris 2009-06, snv_111b) with the OpenSolaris provided MySQL 5.1.30 under /usr/mysql. The server is a Sun X2100 M2, which has a dual core AMD Opteron processor (amd64).

Running "./configure --with-mysql" stops here:

... checking for mysql_config... mysql_config checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... no configure: error: Can't build with MySQL support: libmysqlclient not found

the libmysqlclient.so is to be found here:

/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql/

or for the amd64 version:

/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql/

And include is at:

/usr/mysql/5.1/include/

I have tried various combinations of things in CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, but it doesn't change the configure error above at all. Eg:

export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql" export CFLAGS="-I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql" export LDFLAGS="-R/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql -L/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql" ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot --with-ldap --with-mysql

Looking at config.log this section seems relevant:

configure:22993: checking for mysql_config configure:23009: found /usr/mysql/bin/mysql_config configure:23021: result: mysql_config configure:23055: checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient configure:23080: gcc -o conftest -std=gnu99 -I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissin g-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/mysql/5.1/include/mysql -R /usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql -L/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/amd64/mysql conftest.c -lmysqlclient -lnsl -lsocket -lrt -l sendfile -L/opt/SUNWspro/lib -lCrun -lrt -L/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql -R/usr/mysql/5.1/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lz -lm >&5 ld: fatal: library -lCrun: not found ld: fatal: file processing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:23080: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h */ ...snip... configure:23089: result: no configure:23198: error: Can't build with MySQL support: libmysqlclient not found

Note, I have not installed the Sun C compiler, so am compiling with gcc (/usr/bin/gcc 3.4.3). gmake is at /usr/bin/gmake and sun make is at /usr/bin/make. Perhaps I would more more luck with Sun's C compiler?

Thank you Jesse

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