[Dovecot] Make install error

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Apr 23 13:30:11 EEST 2013


On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 11:50 +0800, kengheng wrote:
> Hi, I'm recompiling dovecot 2.2.0/2.2.1 with error below during make 
> install:
> 
> test -z "/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/auth" || /usr/bin/mkdir -p 
> "/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/auth"
> /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory 
> ‘/usr/local/dovecot/lib/dovecot/auth’: File exists

This file shouldn't exist.

> The target Svr OS: OpenSuse 12.2 x86 and installed success for 
> qmail/vpopmail. The configuration for dovecot as below:
> ./configure \
> --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot \
> --with-vpopmail \
> --with-docs \
> --with-ssl \
> --without-shadow \
> --without-pam \
> --without-ldap \
> --without-pgsql \
> --without-sql \
> --without-mysql \
> --without-sqlite

I think there's an older differently installed Dovecot in there. rm
-rf /usr/local/dovecot/lib and try make install again.




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