Michael Carmack writes: 

> You've hit it! Yes, I compiled and installed this myself, and bin/imapd 
> IS a symlink to the imapd startup script. I've posted the complete build
> log to: 
> 
> http://karmak.org/2002/01/courier/i686-pc-linux-gnu.1.log 
> 
> It's big (~1MB), but it's all there, from 'configure' to 'make install'.
> Commands I've issued are prefixed with "@@" to find them easily, and
> the very beginning of the log shows the environment variables that are
> set. 
> 
> If you do a search for "bin/imapd", you'll notice that during the 
> installation the following two commands are run (this appears ~90% into 
> the log): 
> 
> rm -f /pkg/courier/0.36.1/.i686-pc-linux-gnu/.karmak-standard.1/bin/imapd
> ln -s /pkg/courier/0.36.1/.i686-pc-linux-gnu/.karmak-standard.1/share/imapd 
>/pkg/courier/0.36.1/.i686-pc-linux-gnu/.karmak-standard.1/bin/imapd 
> 
> It would appear that the original bin/imapd gets deliberately removed
> during 'make install', and replaced by a symlink to the imapd startup
> script. 

This is because your install is completely broken because you manually 
specified the same bindir and sbindir directories. 

> Glad you spotted this. I'm digging into the problem right now, but I

The problem is that you specified non-default installation directories 
without fully understanding how they work. 

-- 
Sam 


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