Yep, that sorted it. Thanks heaps Jussi.

Clint

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:46 AM
> Subject: [courier-users] gmake error
> 
> 
> > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lvpopmail
> 
> If you're compiling Courier as non-root, then you might not have 
> read access to libvpopmail.a
> 
> Test for this with:
> 
> $ ll /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a
> 
> If the responce is "ls: /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a: 
> Permission denied" then you can't read the file. If you can't read 
> the file then you can't possibly link it into an executable.
> 
> Fix it with:
> 
> $ su
> # chmod 644 /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a
> # chmod 755 /home/vpopmail/lib
> # exit
> $
> 
> Now try compiling again.
> 
> It's funny how this particular issue keeps coming up again and 
> again. It seems as if almost every single person installing 
> courier+vpopmail for the first time falls into this trap.
> 
> ----
> Ystävällisin terveisin / Best regards
> Jussi Siponen
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