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Re: Compiling problems - Dovecot SASL + SSL/TLS

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 06:02:19 CST


Stephen McHenry:
> On Jan 1, 2008 4:49 PM, Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:
> > Stephen McHenry:
> > > I've been trying to do a fairly major upgrade to our mail servers,
> > > switching to Dovecot (IMAP+SSL) and adding both SASL (we previously
> > > used POP before SMTP) and SSL/TLS to Postfix (not trying to do
> > > anything overly complicated with the TLS - just trying to avoid
> > > sending AUTH passwords in the clear). The Dovecot part works fine. On
> > > the Postfix side, I tried a "small steps" approach, first adding SASL,
> > > and then adding TLS to that. The SASL part works fine. Compiles,
> > > installs, works great.
> > >
> > > When I went to add the SSL/TLS part, I did (per the instructions) a
> > > "make tidy" followed by:
> > >
> > > make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH
> > > -DDEF_SERVER_SASL_TYPE=\"dovecot\" -DUSE_TLS -I/usr/local/include" \
> > > AUXLIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lssl -lcrypto"
> >
> > You did not follow the SASL_README instructions.
> >
> > % make makefiles CCARGS='-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -
> > DDEF_SERVER_SASL_TYPE=\"dovecot\"'
> >
> > Wietse
>
> Ah. Yes! (Drat!). Thanks.
>
> Now, I'm running up against the linking problem that was in the second
> half (when I tried SSL/TLS w/o SASL). It appears to be looking for
> something it can't find, but I'm not sure what lib dlsym, dlerror,
> dlopen and dlclose are in...

Postfix builds out of the box on Linux. Your compilation environment
appears to be incomplete. I suggest you upgrade to a complete one.

        Wietse