> On 18/05/2026 02:59 EEST Frank Volf via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange > error message. > > What I did is download and extract dovecot-2.4.4.tar.gz and then run > ./configure without any arguments. > After typing make the build started without any problems until this point: > > .... > Making all in auth > CC test_auth_cache-auth-cache.o > CC test_auth_cache-test-auth-cache.o > CC auth-main.o > CC auth-auth.o > CC auth-auth-cache.o > CC auth-auth-client-connection.o > CC auth-auth-master-connection.o > CC auth-auth-policy.o > CC auth-auth-penalty.o > CC auth-auth-request.o > CC auth-auth-request-fields.o > CC auth-auth-request-handler.o > CC auth-auth-request-var-expand.o > CC auth-auth-sasl-mech-apop.o > CC auth-auth-sasl-mech-dovecot-token.o > CC auth-auth-sasl-mech-oauth2.o > CC auth-auth-sasl.o > CC auth-auth-settings.o > CC auth-auth-fields.o > CC auth-auth-token.o > CC auth-auth-worker-connection.o > CC auth-auth-worker-server.o > CC auth-db-oauth2.o > CC auth-db-sql.o > CC auth-db-passwd-file.o > CC auth-passdb.o > CC auth-passdb-blocking.o > CC auth-passdb-bsdauth.o > CC auth-passdb-cache.o > CC auth-passdb-oauth2.o > CC auth-passdb-passwd.o > CC auth-passdb-passwd-file.o > CC auth-passdb-pam.o > CC auth-passdb-sql.o > CC auth-passdb-static.o > CC auth-userdb.o > CC auth-userdb-blocking.o > CC auth-userdb-passwd.o > CC auth-userdb-passwd-file.o > CC auth-userdb-prefetch.o > CC auth-userdb-static.o > CC auth-userdb-sql.o > CC auth-db-ldap.o > CC auth-db-ldap-sasl.o > CC auth-db-ldap-settings.o > CC auth-passdb-ldap.o > CC auth-userdb-ldap.o > CC auth-db-lua.o > CC auth-passdb-lua.o > CC auth-userdb-lua.o > make[3]: don't know how to make -L/usr/local/lib. Stop > > make[3]: stopped making "all" in /home/volf/dovecot-2.4.4/src/auth > *** Error code 1 > > So, apparently make is confused and thinks that the compiler/linker > commandline option is an item to build. > I'm at loss how to solve this. > > I would appreciate it, if somebody could give me a hint how to solve this. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > > > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange > error message. > > What I did is download and extract dovecot-2.4.4.tar.gz and then run > ./configure without any arguments. > After typing make the build started without any problems until this point: > > .... > Making all in auth > CC test_auth_cache-auth-cache.o > CC test_auth_cache-test-auth-cache.o > CC auth-main.o > CC auth-auth.o > CC auth-auth-cache.o > CC auth-auth-client-connection.o > CC auth-auth-master-connection.o > CC auth-auth-policy.o > CC auth-auth-penalty.o > CC auth-auth-request.o > CC auth-auth-request-fields.o > CC auth-auth-request-handler.o > CC auth-auth-request-var-expand.o > CC auth-auth-sasl-mech-apop.o > CC auth-auth-sasl-mech-dovecot-token.o > CC auth-auth-sasl-mech-oauth2.o > CC auth-auth-sasl.o > CC auth-auth-settings.o > CC auth-auth-fields.o > CC auth-auth-token.o > CC auth-auth-worker-connection.o > CC auth-auth-worker-server.o > CC auth-db-oauth2.o > CC auth-db-sql.o > CC auth-db-passwd-file.o > CC auth-passdb.o > CC auth-passdb-blocking.o > CC auth-passdb-bsdauth.o > CC auth-passdb-cache.o > CC auth-passdb-oauth2.o > CC auth-passdb-passwd.o > CC auth-passdb-passwd-file.o > CC auth-passdb-pam.o > CC auth-passdb-sql.o > CC auth-passdb-static.o > CC auth-userdb.o > CC auth-userdb-blocking.o > CC auth-userdb-passwd.o > CC auth-userdb-passwd-file.o > CC auth-userdb-prefetch.o > CC auth-userdb-static.o > CC auth-userdb-sql.o > CC auth-db-ldap.o > CC auth-db-ldap-sasl.o > CC auth-db-ldap-settings.o > CC auth-passdb-ldap.o > CC auth-userdb-ldap.o > CC auth-db-lua.o > CC auth-passdb-lua.o > CC auth-userdb-lua.o > make[3]: don't know how to make -L/usr/local/lib. Stop > > make[3]: stopped making "all" in /home/volf/dovecot-2.4.4/src/auth > *** Error code 1 > > So, apparently make is confused and thinks that the compiler/linker > commandline option is an item to build. > I'm at loss how to solve this. > > I would appreciate it, if somebody could give me a hint how to solve this. > > Kind regards, > > Frank
Can you run `make V=1` please? Shows what's going on. Aki _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
