[Dovecot] crypt missing (configure problem)

Fabio Busatto fabio.busatto at sikurezza.org
Fri Mar 16 17:06:30 EET 2007


On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:47:11PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:28 +0100, Fabio Busatto wrote:
> > It seems to be a wrong check in configure, that comes out in a fatal
> > error (crypt symbol not found because the -lcrypt is omitted).
> ..
> > OS: linux
> 
> What distribution? I haven't before heard of any OS/distro requiring
> -lcrypt.

Uhm, Linux/Slackware :)
But it's not Slackware specific (I can confirm for Fedora too), you already
check for crypt in libcrypt in other configure passes (infact if you include
some other auth system, configure includes libcrypt correctly in the build
process).

I know that crypt() is in libcrypt in all glibc based systems.

Look at the crypt manpage:
Programs using this function must be linked with -lcrypt.

Bye
Fabio
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Fabio Busatto <fabio.busatto at sikurezza.org>


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