Dovecot 2.3.9 fails on FreeBSD

Larry Rosenman larryrtx at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 19:40:33 EET 2019


I'm working on the port as we type.  I've already done this patch (will add
the comments).



On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 11:29 AM Josef 'Jeff' Sipek via dovecot <
dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 12:19:35 -0500, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek via dovecot
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 18:06:58 +0100, Pascal Christen via dovecot
> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've just tried to build the latest Dovecot 2.3.9 on FreeBSD 11.3.
> > > Without success...It fails on the following commit which was introduced
> > > in 2.3.9:
> > >
> https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/c85f1bc3ce612c736c9d2c468cc08306db1b5851
> > >
> > > Following output is the build log: https://pastebin.com/3nvSeDn8
> > >
> > > So I guess it has to do with some changes FreeBSD made:
> > > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18630
> >
> > As far as I can tell, dovecot should be checking for the existence of
> > EAI_ADDRFAMILY and EAI_NODATA.
> >
> > The good news is, a quick workaround is to remove the two lines that use
> > these two constants.  (A correct patch would do the proper checks.)
>
> Ok.  That was easy.  I'm going to get the following patch reviewed and
> committed.
>
> Jeff.
>
> diff --git a/src/lib/net.c b/src/lib/net.c
> --- a/src/lib/net.c
> +++ b/src/lib/net.c
> @@ -1068,13 +1068,17 @@ enum net_hosterror_type net_get_hosterro
>                 int error;
>                 enum net_hosterror_type type;
>         } error_map[] = {
> +#ifdef EAI_ADDRFAIMILY /* Obsoleted by RFC 2553bis-02 */
>                 { EAI_ADDRFAMILY, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_NOT_FOUND },
> +#endif
>                 { EAI_AGAIN, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_NAMESERVER },
>                 { EAI_BADFLAGS, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_INTERNAL_ERROR },
>                 { EAI_FAIL, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_NAMESERVER },
>                 { EAI_FAMILY, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_INTERNAL_ERROR },
>                 { EAI_MEMORY, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_INTERNAL_ERROR },
> +#ifdef EAI_NODATA /* Obsoleted by RFC 2553bis-02 */
>                 { EAI_NODATA, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_NOT_FOUND },
> +#endif
>                 { EAI_NONAME, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_NOT_FOUND },
>                 { EAI_SERVICE, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_INTERNAL_ERROR },
>                 { EAI_SOCKTYPE, NET_HOSTERROR_TYPE_INTERNAL_ERROR },
>


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