dovecot - Nov 2009 - Sieve compilation error

Hi list

Trying to get sieve for 1.2 running (dovecot sieve, not cmusieve)

I'm running on centos 5.4 64bit, dovecot rpms installed from
http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/ ( dovecot-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm
and dovecot-devel-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm )

I pulled the sieve sources ( hg clone
http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve )
autogen.sh
./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/include/dovecot/

so far so good

but make fails:
[...]
make[4]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools/debug'
make[4]: Entering directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../..  -I../../src/lib-sieve
-I../../src/lib-sieve-tool -I./debug -I/usr/include/dovecot
-I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib -I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-mail
-I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-index
-I/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-storage
-I/usr/include/dovecot/src/deliver   -std=gnu99 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -Wall -W
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith
-Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2
-I/usr/kerberos/include  -MT sievec.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/sievec.Tpo"
-c
-o sievec.o sievec.c; \
	then mv -f ".deps/sievec.Tpo" ".deps/sievec.Po"; else rm -f
".deps/sievec.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
make[4]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/include/dovecot/src/lib-storage/register/libstorage-register.a',
needed by `sievec'.  Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src/sieve-tools'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/work/dovecot-1.2-sieve'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any hints?

Thanks in advance
Oli

Oli Schacher wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Trying to get sieve for 1.2 running (dovecot sieve, not cmusieve)
> 
> I'm running on centos 5.4 64bit, dovecot rpms installed from
> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/dovecot/ ( dovecot-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm
> and dovecot-devel-1.2.7-0_102.el5.x86_64.rpm )
> 
> I pulled the sieve sources ( hg clone
> http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve )
> autogen.sh
> ./configure --with-dovecot=/usr/include/dovecot/
> 
--with-dovecot points to the directory containing the dovecot-config 
file. In the default dovecot makefile this is installed in 
$prefix/lib/dovecot. In your case it is apparently installed in the 
include/dovecot directory which confuses Sieve's configure script, 
thinking it is compiling against the sources in stead of the headers only.

In Dovecot Sieve's configure.in:

if test -d "$dovecotdir/src"; then
   # compiling against sources
   have_dovecot_libs=yes
else
   # compiling against installed headers
   echo "WARNING: Cannot build Sieve commandline tools without the
compiled"
   echo "         Dovecot sources. Compiling against headers will only 
build"
   echo "         the Sieve plugin."
   have_dovecot_libs=no
fi

The directory src exists in your include/dovecot, causing your problem.
> 
> Any hints?
Adjusting configure.in should help.

Timo: perhaps we can make the autodetection more robust, what do you 
think? :)

Regards,

Stephan