[Dovecot] Sieve compilation error

[Stephan Bosch]

Oli Schacher wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Trying to get sieve for 1.2 running (dovecot sieve, not cmusieve)
> 
> I'm running on centos 5.4 64bit, dovecot rpms installed from
> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/ ( dovecot-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm
> and dovecot-devel-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm )
> 
> I pulled the sieve sources ( hg clone
> http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve )
> autogen.sh
> ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/include/dovecot/
> 
--with-dovecot points to the directory containing the dovecot-config 
file. In the default dovecot makefile this is installed in 
$prefix/lib/dovecot. In your case it is apparently installed in the 
include/dovecot directory which confuses Sieve's configure script, 
thinking it is compiling against the sources in stead of the headers only.

In Dovecot Sieve's configure.in:

if test -d "$dovecotdir/src"; then
   # compiling against sources
   have_dovecot_libs=yes
else
   # compiling against installed headers
   echo "WARNING: Cannot build Sieve commandline tools without the compiled"
   echo "         Dovecot sources. Compiling against headers will only 
build"
   echo "         the Sieve plugin."
   have_dovecot_libs=no
fi

The directory src exists in your include/dovecot, causing your problem.

> 
> Any hints?
Adjusting configure.in should help.

Timo: perhaps we can make the autodetection more robust, what do you 
think? :)

Regards,

Stephan