[Dovecot] inotify.h not found

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Dec 11 02:21:04 EET 2005


On 11.12.2005, at 02:03, Mark Rosenstand wrote:

> dovecot (1.0.alpha5) won't compile with inotify support because
> inotify.h can't be found. I'm running Linux 2.6.15-rc5 with headers
> from 2.6.12 (like most vendors). I've noticed that beagle and other
> inotify-enabled applications ships with an inotify.h. Could this be
> scheduled for alpha6? :-)

I don't think it's Dovecot's job to include Linux-specific header files 
that it doesn't really even require. Looks like Debian at least has 
inotify.h already:

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