Hi,

I'm trying to compile Dovecot beta2 with inotify support, but this is unsuccessfull.

First, it seems that the configure script is looking for inotify.h in /usr/include/sys, whereas it is in /usr/include/linux on my Debian Sarge system. But that's a minor point, let's make a symlink.

% dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/inotify.h linux-kernel-headers: /usr/include/linux/inotify.h

% dpkg -l linux-kernel-headers ii linux-kernel-headers 2.6.13+0rc3-2 Linux Kernel Headers for development

Then the compilation fails with the following error :

i386-linux-gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -o dovecot-auth auth.o auth-cache.o auth-client-connection.o auth-master-connection.o auth-master-listener.o auth-module.o auth-request.o auth-request-handler.o auth-stream.o auth-worker-client.o auth-worker-server.o db-ldap.o db-sql.o db-passwd-file.o main.o mech.o mech-anonymous.o mech-plain.o mech-login.o mech-cram-md5.o mech-digest-md5.o mech-ntlm.o mech-gssapi.o mech-rpa.o mech-apop.o passdb.o passdb-blocking.o passdb-bsdauth.o passdb-cache.o passdb-ldap.o passdb-passwd.o passdb-passwd-file.o passdb-pam.o passdb-checkpassword.o passdb-shadow.o passdb-vpopmail.o passdb-sql.o userdb.o userdb-blocking.o userdb-ldap.o userdb-passwd.o userdb-passwd-file.o userdb-prefetch.o userdb-static.o userdb-vpopmail.o userdb-sql.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libpassword.a ../lib-settings/libsettings.a ../lib-ntlm/libntlm.a ../lib-sql/libsql.a ../lib/liblib.a -lcrypt -lpam -L/usr/lib -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lresolv -lldap -lpq /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so -lz -ldl ../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x185): In function io_loop_notify_add': /home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:102: undefined reference to inotify_add_watch' ../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x26d): In function io_loop_notify_remove': /home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:145: undefined reference to inotify_rm_watch' ../lib/liblib.a(ioloop-notify-inotify.o)(.text+0x2de): In function io_loop_notify_handler_init': /home/nico/sources/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.beta2/src/lib/ioloop-notify-inotify.c:163: undefined reference to inotify_init'

Am I missing something ? What should be done to compile Dovecot with inotify support ?

Thanks in advance,

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