[Dovecot] dies on start-up: Auth process

[Tom Allison]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:45:53PM -0500, tallison at tacocat.net wrote:
> 
>>IIRC, configure --help showed pam as a default authentication.
>>Do you need to recompile this '--with-pam' as one of the options?
> 
> 
> It tries to detect PAM automatically. Running configure should list it in
> passdb list. If it doesn't, you could check from config.log if there's some
> errors about PAM.
> 
> 
>>I have been compiling this as:
>>./configure --enable-debug
>>or
>>./configure --enable-debug --enable-cyrus-sasl2
> 
> 
> Well, cyrus-sasl2 doesn't actually work at all and you shouldn't really use
> the debugging, that's mostly meant for my own use :) --enable-debug adds a
> lot of unnecessary things just so that I can quickly notice if I break some
> things.

./configure --with-pam | grep pam

returns:
configure: line 8578: pkg-config: command not found
checking for pam_start in -lpam... no