hi

I tried to install several versions of Dovecot and all I have this error:
Dovecot version :

dovecot-2.0.16.tar.gz
dovecot-1.2.16.tar.gz
dovecot-1.2.17.tar.gz



tar xzpf dovecot-2.0.16.tar.gz

./configure \
--with-vpopmail \
--with-docs \
--with-ssl \



Install prefix . : /usr/local
File offsets ... : 64bit
I/O polling .... : epoll
I/O notifys .... : inotify
SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL)
GSSAPI ......... : no
passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword vpopmail
: -pam -bsdauth -sia -ldap -sql
userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword vpopmail nss
: -ldap -sql
SQL drivers .... :
: -pgsql -mysql -sqlite
root@mail:/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-2.0.16#make
...........................................................
s -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o
In file included from quota-fs.c:29:0:
rquota.h:9:21: fatal error: rpc/rpc.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-2.0.16/src/plugins/quota'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-2.0.16/src/plugins'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-2.0.16/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-2.0.16'
make: *** [all] Error 2
root@mail:/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-2.0.16#




install dovecot-1.2.16

root@mail:/downloads/qmailrocks#tar xzpf dovecot-1.2.16.tar.gz
root@mail:/downloads/qmailrocks#cd dovecot-1.2.16


./configure \
--with-vpopmail \
--with-docs \
--with-ssl \



Install prefix . : /usr/local
File offsets ... : 64bit
I/O polling .... : epoll
I/O notifys .... : inotify
SSL ............ : yes (OpenSSL)
GSSAPI ......... : no
passdbs ........ : static passwd passwd-file shadow checkpassword vpopmail
: -pam -bsdauth -sia -ldap -sql
userdbs ........ : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword vpopmail nss
: -ldap -sql
SQL drivers .... :
: -pgsql -mysql -sqlite
root@mail:/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-1.2.16# make

.............................................................

/bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -DPKG_RUNDIR=\""/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"\" -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c -o quota-fs.lo quota-fs.c
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-index -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I../../../src/lib-storage/index -I../../../src/lib-storage/index/maildir -DPKG_RUNDIR=\"/usr/local/var/run/dovecot\" -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o
In file included from quota-fs.c:28:0:
rquota.h:9:21: fatal error: rpc/rpc.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-1.2.16/src/plugins/quota'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-1.2.16/src/plugins'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-1.2.16/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-1.2.16'
make: *** [all] Error 2
root@mail:/downloads/qmailrocks/dovecot-1.2.16#


sorry for my English
thank you

you are using slackware current: in the updated glibc in -current some rpc headers are deprecated in favour of libtirpc ones.

if you want to build it, I personally think your best options for now, until things on -current stabilize, are either:

- to reinstall the missing headers: you can find a (unofficial) testing slackbuild I wrote for them here from which you can make a package.
Install it and dovecot should build fine.
You can uninstall the rpcnis-headers package after building dovecot, but keep it at hand as other software might still need those headers for building.

- to build it against libtirpc (these are my testing build scripts for this library not yet in slackware), but you will have to modify the official build script a little (here I also updated it for 2.0.16).
This seems to work too (tested).

I suggest you also to use slackbuilds.org's slackbuild for building dovecot, a lot of the dirty work is done already for you simply running it, courtesy of Alan Hicks.

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