On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 11:45:54 +0300 Washington Odhiambo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 3:44 AM Joel Mawhorter via dovecot < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:05:20 +0100 > > Matthias Fechner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Am 28.01.2026 um 12:58 schrieb Joel Mawhorter via dovecot: > > > > ./autogen.sh > > > > ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode > > > > make > > > on BSD you must use gmake if you want to use GNU make and not BSD make. > > > > Thanks. That was my problem. It now seems to work with the latest from > > Github on OpenBSD 7.8. Thanks to everyone for your help. > > > > One more quick question. I'm planning to try to install 2.4 in parallel > > with 2.3 on OpenBSD until I can get everything moved over and wonder if > > there is any easy way with the current Makefiles to install under somewhere > > else other than /usr/local/? > > > > You can always run ./configure --prefix=/SOME/OTHER/PATH, > e.g. --prefix=/opt/ > Why don't you run the other one in a VM? > > Oddly, when I compile the latest Github HEAD branch after ¨./configure" without any options, everything builds fine. If I compile after "./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot", I get the following build error: gmake[3]: Entering directory '/home/joel/dovecot/src/lib-charset' CC charset-iconv.lo charset-iconv.c:7:10: fatal error: 'iconv.h' file not found 7 | #include <iconv.h> | ^~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. gmake[3]: *** [Makefile:810: charset-iconv.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/home/joel/dovecot/src/lib-charset' gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:607: all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/home/joel/dovecot/src' gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:744: all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/home/joel/dovecot' gmake: *** [Makefile:586: all] Error 2 _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
