[Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
I'm using Fedora 9 I downloaded dovecot-1.1.3.tar.gz and extracted it. I then opened a terminal in the extracted window. Your install instructions say:
For most people, the usual: ./configure make sudo make install
but when I did them I got
[root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details.
[root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]# sudo make install make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop. [root@mydomain dovecot-1.1.3]#
can you tell me why the install won't work? thanks for any advice.
- tonj <tonj@freeuk.com>:
No compiler, no compilation. Easy?
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on 9-26-2008 3:50 PM tonj spake the following:
Please be careful here. If you are that new that you don't know what a compiler is or where it is found, you need to do some reading so you don't leave your equipment vulnerable to be attacked by the scum of the earth. Once they hack your server, it is their server, and will flood the rest of humanity with spam and viruses...and you will get the blame by your ip addresses being added to every blacklist that exists.
Linux is a fun and interesting way to learn, but it is also a very full toolset that can wreak havoc if you are not careful!
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tonj wrote:
not for a newbie no. what's a complier?
Are you sure you need to install dovecot? And even if you do want an IMAP server, do you feel confident enough to configure and maintain it?
-- Dry clean only.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eduardo M KALINOWSKI" <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> To: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:48 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-1.1.3 failure to install
no I don't feel confident but we've all got to start somewhere
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Ralf Hildebrandt
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Scott Silva
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Seth Mattinen
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tonj