On 2026-05-18, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
it doesn't really help, because this is make trying to build "-L/usr/local/lib" rather than an error coming from a program started by make. With make --debug=basic: Making all in auth GNU Make 4.4.1 Built for x86_64-unknown-openbsd7.9 Copyright (C) 1988-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Reading makefiles... Updating makefiles.... Updating goal targets.... File 'all' does not exist. File 'all-am' does not exist. File 'test-auth-cache' does not exist. File 'auth' does not exist. File '-L/usr/local/lib' does not exist. Must remake target '-L/usr/local/lib'. gmake[3]: Entering directory '/usr/obj/ports/dovecot-2.4.4/build-amd64/src/auth' gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target '-L/usr/local/lib', needed by 'auth'. Stop. gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/obj/ports/dovecot-2.4.4/build-amd64/src/auth' gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:610: all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/obj/ports/dovecot-2.4.4/build-amd64/src' gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:740: all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/obj/ports/dovecot-2.4.4/build-amd64' gmake: *** [Makefile:582: all] Error 2 This is because, in this: auth_libs = ../lib-auth/libauth-crypt.la $(AUTH_LUA_LIBS) \ $(LIBDOVECOT_SQL) $(am__append_4) $(am__append_7) \ $(am__append_8) am__append_8 includes -L/usr/local/lib as well as library names. It does build if I do this (and libexec/dovecot/auth is still linked to the libraries needed for lua).. Index: src/auth/Makefile.am --- src/auth/Makefile.am.orig +++ src/auth/Makefile.am @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ endif endif if HAVE_LUA -auth_libs += $(LIBDOVECOT_LUA) $(LUA_LIBS) +auth_libs += $(LIBDOVECOT_LUA) endif if AUTH_LUA_PLUGIN _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
