[Dovecot] Compile without GSSAPI disables SSL?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Feb 5 13:12:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 11:58 -0800, Troy Engel wrote:
> Perchance this is something unique to Red Hat -- I'm compiling/running 
> 1.0rc?? on a CentOS 4 machine (i386), building RPMs and trimming down 
> things I don't need (SQL e.g.).
> 
> If I compile with the flag --with-gssapi, the resulting dovecot-auth 
> binary links to libcrypto and libssl, the standard OpenSSL libs. Life is 
> happy even though I don't need gssapi/krb5 support.
> 
> If I remove --with-gssapi (but leave --with-ssl=openssl as before), the 
> resulting dovecot-auth binary is no longer linked to the OpenSSL 
> libraries (so I'm assuming no TLS/SSL support, but can't run the binary 
> to test - I have SSL betatest users).

That's probably because GSSAPI itself requires the SSL libraries.
dovecot-auth doesn't need the SSL libraries itself. Only
ssl-build-param, imap-login and pop3-login binaries need the SSL
library.
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