Static build problems

Jacob Welsh dovecot-ml at welshcomputing.com
Sun Oct 9 18:35:35 UTC 2022


On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, Aki Tuomi wrote:

>> I noticed commit d21897832a443d139d56b1fb1c86d8f76e5f77f3 from 2009,
>> "Fixed compiling without module support", and clearly it's supposed to
>> work since the #ifdefs are there, but I begin to suspect that nobody's
>> actually tested this branch of the configuration tree recently.
>>
>> Further, looking through the automakefiles I'm not finding how the plugin
>> libraries are supposed to work at all in this case and I begin to fear
>> that they simply... aren't.

> We don't test all static builds, since we don't use or ship Dovecot in that manner. So, it is very likely it will not work.

Alright, then is there any desire to fix it?

Jacob


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