dovecot - Feb 2017 - Compiling Dovecot on Solaris 10

Hi,

thank You for a reply, compiling with Solaris Studio 12.5 solved this case.


Martin Preen <preen at informatik.uni-freiburg.de> ra??:
> Hello,
> I don't have problems building 2.2.27 on Solaris 10
> (using Sun Workshop compiler 5.11).
>
> The configuration is the same as your.
> Maybe a compiler/version problem on your system ?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> Mantas Gegu?is wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am tying to compile Dovecot 2.2.27 on Solaris 10, and I get this
error:
>> test-ioloop.c: In function `test_ioloop_pending_io':
>> test-ioloop.c:188: error: size of array `type name' is negative
>>
>> My configuration is like this:
>> Install prefix . : /usr/local
>> File offsets ... : 64bit
>> I/O polling .... : poll
>> I/O notifys .... : none
>> SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL)
>> GSSAPI ......... : no
>> passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword
>> dcrypt ..........: yes
>>                  : -bsdauth -sia -ldap -sql -vpopmail
>> userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword
>>                  : -ldap -sql -vpopmail -nss
>> SQL drivers .... :
>>                  : -pgsql -mysql -sqlite -cassandra
>> Full text search : squat
>>                  : -lucene -solr
>>
>> Last version that I have compiled was 2.2.24, version 2.2.25 failed  
>> with error:
>> In file included from guid.c:6:
>> sha1.h:80: error: static or type qualifiers in abstract declarator
>>
>> Is there anyone who can help me?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Martin Preen, Universit?t Freiburg, Institut f?r Informatik
> Georges-Koehler-Allee 52, Raum EG-006, 79110 Freiburg, Germany
>
> phone: ++49 761 203-8250    preen at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
> fax: ++49 761 203-8242      swt.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/preen


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On 2017.02.03. 16:10, Mantas Gegu?is wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank You for a reply, compiling with Solaris Studio 12.5 solved this case.
>
>
> Martin Preen <preen at informatik.uni-freiburg.de> ra??:
>
>> Hello,
>> I don't have problems building 2.2.27 on Solaris 10
>> (using Sun Workshop compiler 5.11).
>>
>> The configuration is the same as your.
>> Maybe a compiler/version problem on your system ?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
A bit offtopic, but I'm interested what's the point of using so old OS 
(support still exists though)?

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Kaspars

On 02/03/2017 03:22 PM, KSB wrote:
> A bit offtopic, but I'm interested what's the point of using so old
OS
> (support still exists though)?
   Short version: It works.

   Long version:

   Solaris 10 is still supported; the production systems here are 
patched up to current as of last week.  So while the base release is 
quite a few years old, the OS installed on these systems is considered 
current.  When support and a current patch stream are no longer 
available, we will revisit our configuration.

   For these production systems, there is currently no need for any 
capability or feature that exists only in "newer" OS releases.  When 
that changes, we will revisit our configuration.

   Until then, it's rock solid and does everything required of it. 
There are no problems to be addressed.  At least here, we don't fix 
things that aren't broken.

               -Dave

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