dovecot - Jan 2006 - compiling Dovecot CVS version, 1 problem, 1 wish, 3 questions

Hello,

today I checked out a new copy of Dovecot (and LDA) from CVS:

File: ChangeLog         Status: Up-to-date

    Working revision:    1.2765
    Repository revision: 1.2765  /home/cvs/dovecot/ChangeLog,v

I could compile them, but my findings follow:

- the problem:
I copied dovecot-lda below CVS_ROOT/dovecot, the first make attempt failed 
with this fatal error:

make[3]: Entering directory 
`/var/autofs/fb02/prgdist/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve'
/bin/sh ../../ylwrap `test -f 'addr.y' || echo './'`addr.y
y.tab.c addr.c
y.tab.h addr.h y.output addr.output -- bison -y  -d -p addr
../../ylwrap: ../../ylwrap: No such file or directory

the "ylwrap" is actually located in the Dovecot directory,
hence, one directory up, so running

ln -s ../ylwrap .

in CVS_ROOT/dovecot/dovecot-lda fixed the problem.

- the wish:
It would be nice, if one could compile dovecot-lda right in the CVS 
locations without the need to give any option, e.g. the default
"dovecot"
path could be "../dovecot".

- the questions:

running ./autogen.sh results in:
configure.in:1562: required file `./config.h.in' not found
SUBDIRS: variable `DELIVER' is used but `DELIVER' is undefined

^^ Maybe the 2nd error results in that I passed "--without-deliver" to
./configure?

running ./configure results in:
checking for shared library run path origin... ./config.rpath: 
./config.rpath: No such file or directory
done

running dovecot-lda/autogen.sh results in:
configure.in:4: required file `./lda-config.h.in' not found

Neither of these error messages prevent to built Dovecot,
but they does not look "correct".

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser

Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de> wrote
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:47:53 +0100 (CET):

|  I copied dovecot-lda below CVS_ROOT/dovecot, the first make attempt failed 
|  with this fatal error:

Have you seen the instructions for compiling dovecot-lda on
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA ?

-- 
Linus

Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de> wrote
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:48:10 +0100 (CET):

|  > Have you seen the instructions for compiling dovecot-lda on
|  > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA ?
|  
|  Yes and no; in the Wiki:
|  
|  ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot
|  
|  The default is "..", so the default assumes that the source are
located in
|  a sub-dir of Dovecot (which was mandatory some versions ago).

Ah, I didn't realize that.


|  The Wiki-way works, which is also confusing, because shouldn't it work 
|  anywhere. So how about to change the default for the dovecot-path to 
|  '../dovecot', in order to avoid confusion?

There's some magic going on with the Auto* tools and parent directory,
it seems.  For me, with dovecot-lda in subdirectory of dovecot,
libtool --force says

  Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `..'.

and automake --add-missing says

  configure.in: installing `../ylwrap'

Auto* versions used:
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.20 (1.1220.2.287 2005/08/31 18:54:15)
automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59

aclocal.m4 mentions using $srcdir/.. for AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR if not
given explicitly.  I'm not versed enough in Auto*magic to sort this
out though.

-- 
Linus

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:47 +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/var/autofs/fb02/prgdist/dovecot/dovecot/dovecot-lda/src/libsieve'
> /bin/sh ../../ylwrap `test -f 'addr.y' || echo './'`addr.y
y.tab.c addr.c
> y.tab.h addr.h y.output addr.output -- bison -y  -d -p addr
> ../../ylwrap: ../../ylwrap: No such file or directory
> 
> the "ylwrap" is actually located in the Dovecot directory,
> hence, one directory up, so running
> 
> ln -s ../ylwrap .
Don't know about this really.. But once Dovecot-LDA gets packaged into
tarball this problem doesn't happen since it doesn't need bison at all.
> - the wish:
> It would be nice, if one could compile dovecot-lda right in the CVS 
> locations without the need to give any option, e.g. the default
"dovecot"
> path could be "../dovecot".
Changed.
> running ./autogen.sh results in:
> configure.in:1562: required file `./config.h.in' not found
> SUBDIRS: variable `DELIVER' is used but `DELIVER' is undefined
Fixed.
> ^^ Maybe the 2nd error results in that I passed
"--without-deliver" to
> ./configure?
The deliver doesn't get built nowadays anymore at all. And the warning
comes before you even run configure.
> running ./configure results in:
> checking for shared library run path origin... ./config.rpath: 
> ./config.rpath: No such file or directory
> done
Hmh. This file seems to be created by gettextize, but it adds also all
sorts of other crap around which Dovecot doesn't need. Seems to be
working fine without it too..
> running dovecot-lda/autogen.sh results in:
> configure.in:4: required file `./lda-config.h.in' not found
I think this was because autoheader was run too late. I've changed
autogen.sh now to run it earlier.

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