[Dovecot] CVS/test version config/build failures on FreeBSD

[Mike Brown]

While diagnosing a problem I was having with IMAP and SSL (which I ended up
fixing by simply upgrading from 0.99.9.1 to 0.99.10, and possibly affected by
upgrading openssl libs from 0.9.7a to 0.9.7.b), I attempted to try the CVS
version of Dovecot.

When using the CVS version, apparently I have to first generate 'configure'
using autogen.sh (?). This was the result of that, on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
(2003-08-06):

# ./autogen.sh
automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
configure.in: 3: required file `./config.h.in' not found
automake: configure.in: installing `./depcomp'
configure.in:3: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
configure.in:13: warning: AC_ARG_PROGRAM invoked multiple times
configure.in:1126: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
autoheader: `config.h.in' is created

And then...

# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
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... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for inline... inline
checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.8
checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.8
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/libexec/elf/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/elf/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig
./ltconfig: .: /dev/null: not a regular file
ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'
Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
configure: error: libtool configure failed


I also attempted to use 0.99.11-test4 from http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/test/,
but this failed to build:

[...]
Making all in maildir
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../.. -I../../../../src/lib         -I../../../../src/lib-mail      -I../../../../src/lib-imap     -I../../../../src/lib-index     -I../../../../src/lib-index/maildir     -I../../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../../src/lib-storage/index  -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -c maildir-copy.c
make: don't know how to make ../../../../src/lib-storage/index/index-expunge.h. Stop
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-0.99.11-test4/src/lib-storage/index.


Just thought you'd like to know :)

-Mike