You definitely want gmake on FreeBSD. Also, I’m not sure if the post I sent made it through or not, but the patch I posted (for src/auth/Makefile.in) allowed me to compile cleanly (other than the "libtool: warning: Linking the shared library […]” warnings).
—Jeff > On May 18, 2026, at 18:59, Mel P via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2026-05-17 16:59, Frank Volf via dovecot wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange >> error message. > [...] >> 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 > > The Dovecot ports use gmake, so you probably need to install and use the GNU > bintools (gmake, m4, autoconf, etc.) to build it manually. > > Also, the PR Michael Grimm posted contains a skeleton for a Dovecot 2.4 port. > You might try that instead. > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
