dovecot - Sep 2004 - problems building / starting test40 + test42

Hi

	I was trying to build test40 (and then test42, since it came out in the mean 
time) on my fresh Solaris 9 box at home, and ran into a few snags.

	First problem was during the build.  Make spat the dummy in the auth directory:

Making all in auth
make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 701: Unexpected end of line seen
Current working directory /home/pkg/dovecot-1.0-test42/src/auth

	So, I went and checked it out, to find what certainly looked to me like an
error:

697:distclean-generic clean-generic maintainer-clean-generic clean \
698:mostlyclean distclean maintainer-clean
699:
700:        checkpassword-reply.c
701:
702:# Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.

	Originally, I tried tacking that onto the end of the preceding list, but when 
the next problem came about, I tried commenting it out... with no joy.

	The next problem was in starting it.  I've configured Dovecot before, and
it
runs great, keeping all the users at my work happy and supplied with spa... 
erm... e-mail.  I also have an older test version installed on an old 
SparcStation 5 at home.

	But when I try to start it, it complains of not being able to drop root group 
privileges.  I googled about for a bit, and found mention of ensuring the 
minimum GID level was set right... but still no joy.  I'm at a loss.

	Any suggestions?  Any requests for better info to help debug?

--
Curtis Maloney
cmaloney at cardgate.net

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:39:33AM +1000, Curtis Maloney
wrote:
> 
> 
> Making all in auth
> make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 701: Unexpected end of line
seen
> Current working directory /home/pkg/dovecot-1.0-test42/src/auth
this is the standard error you get when using sun's make on a Makefile that
assumes GNU make.  get and install GNU make (if you don't already have it
installed)
> 	Any suggestions?  Any requests for better info to help debug?
sorry, i can't help you with the second issue, dovecot 0.99.11 works fine on
my sol9 box, so i'm sticking with that until 1.0 comes out (and it is also
time
to build a new mail server)

-brian
-- 
"The cats tend to administer themselves, and contrary to the expected
facts,
the house and everything in it was installed for their benefit."   -- Nic
Clews

On 14.9.2004, at 02:39, Curtis Maloney wrote:
> 697:distclean-generic clean-generic maintainer-clean-generic clean \
> 698:mostlyclean distclean maintainer-clean
> 699:
> 700:        checkpassword-reply.c
> 701:
> 702:# Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all 
> variables.
Whops. I had forgotten \ character from Makefile.am. Fixed now.
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