On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 2:44PM Joel Mawhorter via dovecot
<[1][email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 11:45:54 +0300
Washington Odhiambo <[2][email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 3:44AM Joel Mawhorter via dovecot <
> [3][email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:05:20 +0100
> > Matthias Fechner <[4][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
That's expected. Autoconf switches to prefix-relative include/library
probing and stops checking the base system paths correctly for some
feature tests (including iconv).
As a result:
HAVE_ICONV is misdetected
lib-charset is still built
but iconv.h is no longer in the compiler's active include set during
sub-builds
That's why the failure only appears with --prefix=/opt/dovecot.
I was able to reproduce that failure, and resolved it by:
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib"
./configure \
--prefix=/opt/dovecot \
--enable-maintainer-mode \
--with-sql=yes \
--with-mysql \
--with-pgsql \
--enable-experimental-mail-utf8 \
--with-pcre2 \
--disable-static
--
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
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