Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-12 Thread John Fawcett
On 12/01/2022 04:19, Ruben Safir wrote: I downloaded the dovecot source and it doesn't compile. The install script fails in auth because it makes a file and then tries to make a directory over it make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ruben/src/dovecot-2.3.17.1/src/auth' make[3]: Entering directory

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-12 Thread John Stoffel
> "Ruben" == Ruben Safir writes: Ruben> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:37:12AM +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote: >> >> > On 12/01/2022 08:20 Ruben Safir wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 1/12/22 01:06, Aki Tuomi wrote: >> > > I tried to reproduce this issue on debian stretch, but it worked just >> > > fine. I

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-12 Thread Ruben Safir
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:37:12AM +0200, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > > On 12/01/2022 08:20 Ruben Safir wrote: > > > > > > On 1/12/22 01:06, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > > I tried to reproduce this issue on debian stretch, but it worked just > > > fine. I suspect your distro is just too old for 2.3. Can you

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Ruben Safir : Its not older than stretch. It is based on opensuse -- how could it behvave so differently with regard to auth As the maintainer of a couple of openSUSE packages (not Dovecot though), may I ask which openSUSE version it was based off? So that we can get an idea of wh

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 12/01/2022 08:20 Ruben Safir wrote: > > > On 1/12/22 01:06, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > I tried to reproduce this issue on debian stretch, but it worked just fine. > > I suspect your distro is just too old for 2.3. Can you see if 2.2.36 works > > better? > > > something in the autoconf conf

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 12/01/2022 08:18 Ruben Safir wrote: > > > On 1/12/22 01:06, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > I tried to reproduce this issue on debian stretch, but it worked just fine. > > I suspect your distro is just too old for 2.3. Can you see if 2.2.36 works > > better? > > > Its not older than stretch. I

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Ruben Safir
On 1/12/22 01:06, Aki Tuomi wrote: > I tried to reproduce this issue on debian stretch, but it worked just fine. I > suspect your distro is just too old for 2.3. Can you see if 2.2.36 works > better? something in the autoconf config caused it to try to put auth and the auth directory in the sam

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Ruben Safir
On 1/12/22 01:06, Aki Tuomi wrote: > I tried to reproduce this issue on debian stretch, but it worked just fine. I > suspect your distro is just too old for 2.3. Can you see if 2.2.36 works > better? Its not older than stretch. It is based on opensuse -- how could it behvave so differently wit

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 12/01/2022 07:46 Ruben Safir wrote: > > > On 1/12/22 00:26, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > What ./configure line did you use? Also, which os/distro is this? > > I just used ./configure > > I thought of using a prefix to root, but changed my mind and decided to > just let it install into /usr/loc

Re: [External] Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 1/12/2022 12:14 AM, Ruben Safir wrote: --2022-01-12 00:10:41--https://www.dovecot.org/tmp/wiki2-export.tar.gz Resolvingwww.dovecot.org (www.dovecot.org)... 94.237.12.234, 2a04:3545:1000:720:acc1:5bff:fe5e:4e9 Connecting towww.dovecot.org (www.dovecot.org)|94.237.12.234|:443... connected. Ope

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Ruben Safir
On 1/12/22 00:26, Aki Tuomi wrote: > What ./configure line did you use? Also, which os/distro is this? I just used ./configure I thought of using a prefix to root, but changed my mind and decided to just let it install into /usr/local/, especially since I had the systems ancient dovecott still up

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 12/01/2022 05:19 Ruben Safir wrote: > > > I downloaded the dovecot source and it doesn't compile. The install > script fails in auth because it makes a file and then tries to make a > directory over it > > make[2]: Entering directory '/home/ruben/src/dovecot-2.3.17.1/src/auth' > make[3

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread Ruben Safir
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:56:25PM -0500, dove...@ptld.com wrote: > > I am running an older version of dovecott and would really like to > > upgrade it and there is no package for this linux version > > > Not sure what OS you are using, but in case you didn't know, dovecot > maintains their own

Re: source code doesn't compile

2022-01-11 Thread dovecot
> I am running an older version of dovecott and would really like to > upgrade it and there is no package for this linux version Not sure what OS you are using, but in case you didn't know, dovecot maintains their own repos for popular OS's allowing you to use your package manager to install t