Dear DINH and TIMO,

Here are the last lines before the fatal error. It says that "set fnord ; amf=$2; \ " is the command that caused the error. Does this make any sense to you?

"if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then
make "$target-am" || exit 1;
fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11/src *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord ; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//; \ list='src doc'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target all-recursive' Current working directory /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive-am' /r/downloads/dovecot-0.99.11>"\

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I can include my complete config.log which does complete with no indication of failure reported at the end, BUT, inside it does list fatal errors like:

"configure:2802: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lcposix >&5 ld: fatal: library -lcposix: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to conftest"

AND

"Undefined first referenced symbol in file socket /var/tmp//ccsUoghx.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21217: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ "

AND

"Undefined first referenced symbol in file inet_addr /var/tmp//cceuY9Eo.o (symbol belongs to implicit dependency /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:21383: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ "

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Thanks for your help.

P.S. Was I supposed to send a new message to dovecot at dovecot dot org like this or reply to your message?