[Dovecot] 2.2.4 + metadata plugin: autoconf failed

Andreas Schulze

22 Jul 2013 22 Jul '13

3:56 p.m.

Hello,

I can compile metadata plugin using debian squeeze + wheezy. But build on suse enterprise server 9,10 and 11 failed.

The metadata plugin require autoconf-2.65 which i too new. On the other side I can build the dovecot-2.2.4 and pigeonhole-0.4.0 plugin without problems: dovecot require autoconf-2.59 and pigeonhole does not require any specific autoconf version.

I asked the authors of the plugin for support but got no response. Maybe somebody could review the plugin.

Thanks Andreas

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Christian Wiese

22 Jul 22 Jul

4:31 p.m.

Hi Andreas,

it would be helpful to provide the error message(s). Meanwhile you can try to call the 'autogen.sh' script which is shipped with the sources of the metadata-plugin before running 'configure'. This will try to regenerate all the autotools related files using your installed version.

Cheers, Chris

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:56:20 +0200 Andreas Schulze <andreas.schulze@datev.de> wrote:

...

Hello,

I can compile metadata plugin using debian squeeze + wheezy. But build on suse enterprise server 9,10 and 11 failed.

The metadata plugin require autoconf-2.65 which i too new. On the other side I can build the dovecot-2.2.4 and pigeonhole-0.4.0 plugin without problems: dovecot require autoconf-2.59 and pigeonhole does not require any specific autoconf version.

I asked the authors of the plugin for support but got no response. Maybe somebody could review the plugin.

Thanks Andreas

Christian Wiese

4:37 p.m.

I guess you had to call 'autogen.sh' anyway so maybe you could also try to simply remove the first line of 'configure.ac'. http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-metadata-plugin/file/2a17386d4dbc/configure.ac...

This obviously defines the minimal version of autoconf and who knows if that is really needed ;)

Cheers, Chris

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:31:11 +0200 Christian Wiese <christian.wiese@securepoint.de> wrote:

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Hi Andreas,

it would be helpful to provide the error message(s). Meanwhile you can try to call the 'autogen.sh' script which is shipped with the sources of the metadata-plugin before running 'configure'. This will try to regenerate all the autotools related files using your installed version.

Cheers, Chris

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:56:20 +0200 Andreas Schulze <andreas.schulze@datev.de> wrote:

...
Hello,

I can compile metadata plugin using debian squeeze + wheezy. But build on suse enterprise server 9,10 and 11 failed.

The metadata plugin require autoconf-2.65 which i too new. On the other side I can build the dovecot-2.2.4 and pigeonhole-0.4.0 plugin without problems: dovecot require autoconf-2.59 and pigeonhole does not require any specific autoconf version.

I asked the authors of the plugin for support but got no response. Maybe somebody could review the plugin.

Thanks Andreas

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Christian Wiese

29 Aug 29 Aug

5:38 p.m.

Hi Andreas,

sorry to hear that you didn't had much luck so far to solve the issue. I just tested to run the supplied autogen.sh on a freshly checked out metadata plugin tree, and had no issues.

Somehow it seems to me that you might miss some important development files like some 3rd party .m4 files defining certain macros for autoconf.

Can you please tell me the versions of autoconf, automake, m4, libtool you are using and paste me the output of following commands?

Please provide the information for the debian host where it actually builds and for one of the other hosts where it fails to build.

grep -rn "AC_PROG_CC_C99" /usr/share/auto*

that particular macro should be found in something like /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/c.m4

find /usr/share/ -name "dovecot.m4"

Actually I am nearly sure that you are missing the 'dovecot.m4' file, which is installed at '/usr/share/aclocal/dovecot.m4' on my test host.

I bet the debian host is having the 'dovecot.m4' installed and the others don't have it, because after renaming the 'dovecot.m4' here I ran into the very same issue you have ;)

bash-4.2# mv /usr/share/aclocal/dovecot.m4{,.orig} bash-4.2# ./autogen.sh

creating m4/ ...
running autoreconf ... libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in .'. libtoolize: copying file ./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, m4'. libtoolize: copying file m4/libtool.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file m4/lt~obsolete.m4' src/Makefile.am:33: DOVECOT_PLUGIN_DEPS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL src/Makefile.am:41: DOVECOT_PLUGIN_DEPS does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL src/Makefile.am:10: dovecot_pkglib_LTLIBRARIES' is used but dovecot_pkglibdir' is undefined src/Makefile.am:13: variable libdovecot_metadata_la_SOURCES' is defined but no program or src/Makefile.am:13: library has libdovecot_metadata_la' as canonical name (possible typo) autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

So now we only need to find why the file was not installed on your "failing hosts".

How did you compiled and installed dovecot on those?

As I am compiling/installing dovecot from sources using the provided autotools infrastructure which seems to install the needed 'dovecot.m4', I suppose you ran into an issue with the (S)RPMs provided for your SLES version. For example it is simply not installing the file because RPM is such a "marvelous" packaging system forcing package maintainers to specify what to install instead of simply relying on the way provided by the author to simply run 'make install'. Another reason could be that you simply missed to install the 'dovecot-devel' package, which should install the 'dovecot.m4'. At least in the case of Fedora that seems to be the case.

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/dovecot.git/tree/dovecot.spec#n444

Cheers Chris

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:56:20 +0200 Andreas Schulze <andreas.schulze@datev.de> wrote:

...

Hello,

I can compile metadata plugin using debian squeeze + wheezy. But build on suse enterprise server 9,10 and 11 failed.

The metadata plugin require autoconf-2.65 which i too new. On the other side I can build the dovecot-2.2.4 and pigeonhole-0.4.0 plugin without problems: dovecot require autoconf-2.59 and pigeonhole does not require any specific autoconf version.

I asked the authors of the plugin for support but got no response. Maybe somebody could review the plugin.

Thanks Andreas

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