On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 5:20PM Stuart Henderson <[1][email protected]>
wrote:
On 2026/01/28 16:58, Washington Odhiambo wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>
> export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.72
> export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.18
> export LIBTOOL=glibtool
> export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
>
>
> ./autogen.sh &&
> ./configure \
> --enable-maintainer-mode \
> --with-sql=yes \
> --with-mysql \
> --with-pgsql \
> --enable-experimental-mail-utf8 \
> --with-pcre2
>
> gmake -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
> doas gmake install
Bad idea to run the install as root unconditionally. If the build
failed,
you'll re-run part of the build again as root as a dependency of "make
install".
There are various ways to avoid this; "set -e" at the top of the script
is probably simplest.
> And here is where it fails:
>
> <cut>
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
'/home/wash/Dovecot/dovecot/src/lib-doveadm'
> Making install in lib-var-expand-crypt
> gmake[2]: Entering directory
'/home/wash/Dovecot/dovecot/src/lib-var-expand-crypt'
> CCLD test-var-expand-crypt
>
> *** Warning: Linking the executable test-var-expand-crypt against the
loadable module
> *** var_expand_crypt.so is not portable!
> ld: error: unable to find library -lvar_expand_crypt
You'll at least need either the patchset that Aki mentioned, or git head
[2]https://github.com/dovecot/core/compare/f8dcc0ddbf877%5E...1c6b67195d279836d94e.patch
and then you may also hit the problems I ran into with xapian/pcre2.
1. How do I get the 'git head'? I just cloned the repo a few hours ago?
2. How did you deal with the xapian/pcre2 issue?
I suppose that's why the OP abandoned his quest for running dovecot on
OpenBSD, right?
Because it's not as straightforward as on Debian-based Linux.
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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