hi all, a few notes/issues re: building dovecot on OSX. first, after DL of cvs-head, % autogen.sh reports: autogen.sh: line 2: libtoolize: command not found o OSX, 'libtoolize' has been sed'd to glibtoolize. couple of ways to deal with this: (a) edit in autogen.sh aclocal --- libtoolize --force +++ glibtoolize --force automake --add-missing autoheader autoconf (b) run % autoreconf -i -f instead (c) i suppose yout can link: % ln -s /usr/bin/glibtoolize /usr/bin/libtoolize imho, too 'kludgy' ... never tried it. (d) put some sort of conditional in autogen.sh ... many options of course e.g.: HOSTTYPE=`uname` if [ "$HOSTTYPE" == "Darwin" ]; then LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize else LIBTOOLIZE=libtoolize fi fwiw, i'm using (b) --> % autoreconf -i -f successfully. next, dovecot's ./configure fails at the check for openssl: ... checking whether va_lists can be copied by value... yes ./configure: line 27241: syntax error near unexpected token `SSL,' ./configure: line 27241: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SSL, openssl)' % within a pkg-config stanza ... as pkg-config does not exist on OSX, a couple of hacks in 'configure.in': ================================================== (EDITOR) configure.in @1032 if test "$want_openssl" = "yes" && test "$have_ssl" = "no"; then --- if pkg-config --exists openssl; then +++ if test -f openssl; then --- PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SSL, openssl) CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SSL_CFLAGS" ================================================== , followed, of course, by another: % autoreconf -i -f take care of the problem. with changes as above, 'configure' with: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/dovecot \ --exec-prefix=/usr/local/dovecot \ --bindir=/usr/local/dovecot/bin \ --sbindir=/usr/local/dovecot/sbin \ --libexecdir=/usr/local/dovecot/libexec \ --libdir=/usr/local/dovecot/lib \ --includedir=/usr/local/dovecot/include \ --sysconfdir=/var/Settings/Dovecot \ --localstatedir=/var/Process \ --mandir=/var/Documentation/man \ --datadir=/var/Data/Dovecot \ --with-ssl=openssl --with-ssldir=/usr/local \ --with-rundir=/var/Process/dovecot \ --with-moduledir=/usr/local/dovecot-modules \ --enable-shared \ --enable-static \ --enable-ipv6 \ --with-pgsql \ --disable-debug completes sueccessfully, as do: make make check make install resulting in: % ls -aR .: . .. libexec sbin ./libexec: . .. dovecot ./libexec/dovecot: . checkpassword-reply dovecot-auth imap-login pop3-login .. deliver imap pop3 rawlog ./sbin: . .. dovecot dovecotpw as, i believe, expected. now, onward! cheers, richard