[Dovecot] Can I install in the following fashion?

[Stewart Dean]

I think this is more of what I'd prefer (moving a few executables, vs. 
trying to bring everything over from the original build 
environment...which I was only doing because I assumed that....if make 
install installed it, most of it must be necessary). 
But some questions:
1) will dovecot look for dovecot.conf always in /etc?  That is, if I run 
configure with:

--eprefix=/usr/local/dovecot-bld/<timestamp>
--prefix=/usr/local/dovecot-bld/<timestamp>

will the executables look to

/usr/local/dovecot-bld/<timestamp>/etc/dovecot.conf

or to /etc/dovecot.conf?

2) Similarly, will ssl_build_param refer to the IBM OPenSSL 
idiosyncratic locations passed through CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS or will it 
have dovecot looking for stuff in /usr/local/dovecot-bld/<timestamp>

3) Is the location and packaging of dovecot pretty much stable at this 
point?  By this I mean, will the things I have to update as Dovecot 
updates pretty much be constrained to just the files you mentioned?

My thanks for everyone's patience and help....
S.

Chris Wakelin wrote:
> I believe so. I routinely just copy the imap, imap-login (and optionally
> pop3, pop3-login) dovecot-auth and dovecot binaries (all but the last in
> the libexec directory, the last in the sbin directory) and dovecot.conf
> (in the etc directory).
>
> You'll also need ssl_build_param (hardcoded to be in the libexec
> directory, I think, all the other paths can be specified in the conf
> file) if you use SSL/TLS.
>
> Dovecot is probably better run as a standalone daemon rather than under
> inetd (the latter has been broken in the past, but I think I remember
> seeing somewhere that it has been fixed in the latest betas).
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris
>
> Stewart Dean wrote:
>   
>> Hmmm, hadn't thought of RPM.  But I would like a direct answer to my
>> question, which was:  Can I just tar up everything in a dovecot-only
>> prefix directory (defined in the invocation of configure) when the make
>> and make install is done, and then untar/extract it in a directory of
>> the same name over on another machine with the same OS, patches and
>> OpenSSL?  Are there Dovecot dependencies outside prefix directory.
>>
>>     
>
>   

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