[Dovecot] Install fails when libdir and libexecdir are the same directory

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 29 23:32:49 EET 2009


On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 17:21 +0000, River Tarnell wrote:
> I'm using Dovecot 1.2.9.  I configured it like this:
> 
>   % ./configure --prefix=/opt/rt --libdir=/opt/rt/lib \
>        --libexecdir=/opt/rt/lib [other args...]
> 
> It compiled fine, but failed to install, because it tries to install a
> directory called <libdir>/dovecot/imap, and a file called
> <libexecdir>/dovecat/imap, which obviously doesn't work when libdir and
> libexecdir are the same directory:

Yeah. I'm not really planning on fixing this. I know Debian at least
avoided this by using --with-moduledir=<libdir>/dovecot/modules.

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