Thanks Aki and Stuart for your helpful input on this. I still was not able to build the latest code from github but I'm thankful smarter people than me are making progress on this.
Joel On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:31:14 +0200 (EET) Aki Tuomi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 19/01/2026 22:07 EET Stuart Henderson via dovecot <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On 2026-01-18, Joel Mawhorter via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm writing to see if anyone has had success compiling Dovecot > > > 2.4 on OpenBSD. I can't seem to find any documentation that lists > > > prerequisites. At the moment, the 2.4.2 source tarball from the Dovecot > > > site does not seem to compile on my OpenBSD 7.8 system and the error > > > message is not very helpful. I'm unsure if this is just a problem of > > > some required package not being installed. If anyone could point me to > > > info to help move forward, I would appreciate that. > > > > Even if the error message is not helpful to you, somebody else might be > > able to make more of it. > > > > Some of the problems seen in 2.4.2 on openbsd: > > > > - building test-regex fails, it expects "pkg-config --libs libpcre2-32" > > to return just libraries but on OpenBSD there's also -L/usr/local/lib > > > > Hi! > > I testbuilt dovecot on openbsd 7.7, and was able to fix some of the issues. I > didn't run into the test-regex problem though. Please see > > https://github.com/dovecot/core/compare/f8dcc0ddbf8772f89d4bb3650a95aa98ab3b0907%5E...1c6b67195d279836d94e141215c626c20af93af6.patch > > Aki > _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
