On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:48:07 -0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2026-01-27, Joel Mawhorter via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > If you show the commands you're using to run the build, output from > running 'configure', the error messages and a screenful or so of the > lines from before the error, you'll have a lot better chance of > getting help. > Sorry if it seemed like my email was an obtuse request for help. I had just settled on compiling dovecot 2.3 on debian 13 instead of trying to get dovecot 2.4 on OpenBSD (I'm running redundant mailservers but with different OSes and not having much success with dsync between versions). However, I'm happy to post what I did and my results: I followed instructions on this page: https://doc.dovecot.org/main/installation/installation.html So after checking out from git and installed pre-reqs, I did: ./autogen.sh ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode make Build fails with this: Making all in lib-regex CC regex.lo CCLD libdregex.la CCLD test-regex Making all in lib-var-expand make all-am CC test-var-expand.o CC expansion-parameter.lo CC expansion-statement.lo CC expansion-filter.lo CC expansion-filter-if.lo CC expansion-filter-crypt.lo CC expansion-program.lo CC var-expand.lo CC var-expand-parser.lo CCLD libvar_expand.la CCLD test-var-expand Making all in lib-dns CCLD test-dns-util Making all in lib-settings Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (Makefile:1346) *** Error 1 in src (Makefile:632 'all-recursive': @fail=; if (target_option=k; case ${target_option-} in ?) ;; *) echo "am__make_running_...) *** Error 1 in . (Makefile:769 'all-recursive': @fail=; if (target_option=k; case ${target_option-} in ?) ;; *) echo "am__make_running_wi...) *** Error 2 in /home/joel/dovecot (Makefile:586 'all') _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
