Hi all, again,

I'm not knowledgeable about Kerberos, but we have a few users who use it to make sure that it works well on Solaris... so, they would like a Kerberized IMAPd. I tried compiling dovecot --with-gssapi on Solaris Nevada (the current development release), and the configure script choked for a couple of reasons. First, script uses 'grep -qv' in the case that you specify --with-gssapi to run some test.

Unfortunately, Solaris doesn't have 'grep -q'. There's a note in GNU grep's manpage about this problem and a note that portable scripts should just redirect to /dev/null. Once I fixed this problem, I got:

configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: section "Present But Cannot Be +Compiled" configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: gssapi/gssapi.h: in the future, the compiler will take +precedence configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to dovecot@dovecot.org ## configure: WARNING: ## ---------------------------------- ##

For whatever reason, on Solaris /usr/bin/krb5-config does not like the syntax 'krb5-config --cflags gssapi' (ditto with --libs). I found that removing the 'gssapi' part from the configure script fixed the problem, but I imagine this must break some other OS. If need be, I can follow up with the Kerberos team about this.

Once I made these minor changes, I also had to add -lgss to the src/auth makefile's compile line. After that, I had no problem getting this to compile, although we have not yet tested it.

    -dp

-- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp@eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp