On Wed, Jan 9, 2013, at 06:54 AM, Дилян Палаузов wrote: > Hello, > > according to my logic, > 1) at the end of ./configure a short summary of enabled and disabled > options shall be printed (like murder, nntp, perl, com_err, etc), where > the one who configures can see, that mboxevents are disabled, when > janssion is not installed
Sounds great. > 2) it is up to that person to install jansson and reconfigure then. If > somebody can configure and install cyrus-imapd from source, then he can > download, configure and install jansson. Thus there is no reason to > include jansson in the cyrus-imapd package. Yes. > (In the past a syslog > variant was included in cyrus-imapd.tar but today it is assumed, that > all systems have syslog. That should die. > At the same time the package for com_err is > included in the cyrus-imapd tarball, however it is hard to find where to > downloand and install com_err, which is not the case with jansson). Plus some systems have com_err installed but it's buggy - see Bug 3711. > The > documentation of cyrus-imapd (doc/install-configure.html) shall mention > that the package depens on jansson and probably mention where jansson > can be downloaded. That's all. Yes. > 3) if jansson is not installed, just "./configure" shall not hard-fail. Yes! -- Greg.
