dovecot - Sep 2019 - configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work

Hello

I changed our old gcc compiler from the version: gcc-4.1.2-13.fc6 to the 
newer
one: gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC). Then I wanted to compile: Dovecot 2.3.7 
and I get
the following error with ./configure

CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/openssl/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/openssl/lib" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot \
 ????? --disable-static \
 ????? --with-ssl=openssl

checking whether fd passing works... no
configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work

With the old Compiler configure works well. I couldn't find
a solution on the Internet - can you help me ?

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Sch?ne Gr?sse aus Oberdiessbach Martin Zahn

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> On 06/09/2019 11:21 zahn via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello
> 
> I changed our old gcc compiler from the version: gcc-4.1.2-13.fc6 to the 
> newer
> one: gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC). Then I wanted to compile: Dovecot 2.3.7 
> and I get
> the following error with ./configure
> 
> CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/openssl/include" \
> LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/openssl/lib" \
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot \
>  ????? --disable-static \
>  ????? --with-ssl=openssl
> 
> checking whether fd passing works... no
> configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work
> 
> With the old Compiler configure works well. I couldn't find
> a solution on the Internet - can you help me ?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sch?ne Gr?sse aus Oberdiessbach Martin Zahn
> 
Can you check your config.log file for any hints? It can be bit annoying to
read, but looking for 'fd pass' might help.

Aki

On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, zahn wrote:
> I changed our old gcc compiler from the version: gcc-4.1.2-13.fc6 to the 
> newer one: gcc version 8.3.0 (GCC). Then I wanted to compile: Dovecot 2.3.7
and I
> get the following error with ./configure
> ...
> checking whether fd passing works... no
> configure: error: fd passing is required for Dovecot to work
An earlier post by me and James Lee pointed out this problem
on a different platform but maybe it has the same cause.
Try configuring with "--disable-hardening" and see if that
works.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>