Compiling Dovecot on Solaris 11 fails

James list at xdrv.co.uk
Thu Jan 3 21:07:50 EET 2019


On 03/01/2019 16:45, Andrew Watkins wrote:
> Tried to build dovecot-2.3.4 on Solaris 11 x86 and it fails at configure
> part. I just went checked and it last version it works on is v2.3.2.1
>
...
> ....
> checking Linux compatible mremap()... no
> checking whether shared mmaps get updated by write()s... no
> checking whether fd passing works... no
> configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work
> ....

In think it's thunk (but I forget exactly what aspect).

Try:
./configure --disable-hardening ...

Or build with cc.

(Sorry, it's too late for me to do another test today.)


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