dovecot - Sep 2006 - dovecot ignoring config file contents -- istream.c problem?

Hello!

This is my first time trying to run dovecot so maybe I've overlooked
something, but I'm having a hard time running dovecot.

First of all, it's worth noting that I'm trying to run dovecot on an
embedded platform: the target architecture is mipsel; I have patches
for the 2.4.18 kernel with special support for the board so I'm still
using the 2.4.18 kernel. My C library is uClibc (I forget which
version; will look it up later). The compiler I'm using is GCC 2.96.

Anyway, after some struggling, I got dovecot to compile.

These are my configure options:

./configure --prefix=/home/marko/ovis/myfirm/tmp/ --build=i686-linux
--host=mipsel-uclibc-linux --disable-static --disable-rpath
--disable-ipv6 --with-pic --with-notify=none --without-shadow
--without-pam --with-checkpassword --without-bsdauth
--without-vpopmail --without-ssl --without-pop3d --without-docs

dovecot compiles and runs, but no matter what I put in dovecot.conf,
it says something like "SSL support not build in but ssl_disable=no".
I've even tried putting garbage into the config file (like hello=test
; on my desktop dovecot complains on that line, it is completly
ignored on my embedded device). But when I delete the config file,
dovecot complains.

So I've done some printf-debugging in lib-settings/settings.c, and
fount out that:
control flow reaches the line
input = i_stream_create_file(fd, default_pool, 2048, TRUE);

but then no single iteration of the while loop is executed.

Do you have any idea what could be wrong here? Any help is greatly
appreciated ! Thank you.

Pavol Marko

Hello,
> dovecot compiles and runs, but no matter what I put in dovecot.conf,
> it says something like "SSL support not build in but
ssl_disable=no".
looks like ./configure doesn't find openssl... can you try something like:

CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -ldl" 
./configure (+options)

(all one one line, or in a wrapperscript, edit paths to match yours)
./configure prints a summary which tells you if it finds openssl.

success!

-- 

groeten,

HenkJan Wolthuis

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 23:11 +0000, pavol marko wrote:
> First of all, it's worth noting that I'm trying to run dovecot on
an
> embedded platform: the target architecture is mipsel; I have patches
> for the 2.4.18 kernel with special support for the board so I'm still
> using the 2.4.18 kernel. My C library is uClibc (I forget which
> version; will look it up later). The compiler I'm using is GCC 2.96.
..
> So I've done some printf-debugging in lib-settings/settings.c, and
> fount out that:
> control flow reaches the line
> input = i_stream_create_file(fd, default_pool, 2048, TRUE);
> 
> but then no single iteration of the while loop is executed.
Maybe pread() is broken. After configure try commenting out HAVE_PREAD
and HAVE_PWRITE lines from config.h. If that fixes it, try to get uClibc
people to fix it..
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Yes, commenting out HAVE_PREAD and PREAD_WRAPPERS from config.h has
fixed this problem!

Thank you very much.

As for notifying uClibc people, I'll first have to verify that I'm
using the newest uClibc version.

On 9/7/06, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 23:11 +0000, pavol marko wrote:
> > First of all, it's worth noting that I'm trying to run dovecot
on an
> > embedded platform: the target architecture is mipsel; I have patches
> > for the 2.4.18 kernel with special support for the board so I'm
still
> > using the 2.4.18 kernel. My C library is uClibc (I forget which
> > version; will look it up later). The compiler I'm using is GCC
2.96.
> ..
> > So I've done some printf-debugging in lib-settings/settings.c, and
> > fount out that:
> > control flow reaches the line
> > input = i_stream_create_file(fd, default_pool, 2048, TRUE);
> >
> > but then no single iteration of the while loop is executed.
>
> Maybe pread() is broken. After configure try commenting out HAVE_PREAD
> and HAVE_PWRITE lines from config.h. If that fixes it, try to get uClibc
> people to fix it..
>
>
>