#13 configure does not work on Mailsync 5.1.0

[Anonymous]

The configure script fails to find installed libraries:

checking for libssl... not found
checking for krb5-config... not found
checking for pam library... not found
checking for c-client.h... not found
configure: error: a working c-client installation is
required for building mailsync

libssl is installed on my system in the following places:
/usr/lib/libssl.a
/usr/lib/libssl.so
/usr/local/lib/libssl.a
/usr/local/lib/libssl.so

libpam is installed on my system in the following places:
/usr/lib/libpam.a
/usr/lib/libpam.so

c-client.h is installed on my system in the following
places:
/usr/local/include/c-client/c-client.h

I have tried using the command line parameters as
follows:
./configure --with-openssl=/usr/lib --with-c-
client=/usr/local/include/c-client

and still recieve the same error.

I am running csh, not bash. If I run in sh I get the same
result.

If I edit the configure script and insert an "echo ${p}"
at line 5056 then I get the following result using the
above command line:

checking for libssl... not found
checking for krb5-config... not found
checking for pam library... not found
checking for c-client.h... {/usr/local/include/c-
client,/usr,/usr/local}{,/c-client,/lib/c-client,/include/c-
client,/include,/include/imap}
not found
configure: error: a working c-client installation is
required for building mailsync

Instead of processing each directory seperately, the
script is trying to locate the c-client.h file in this
strange glob. This leads me to think that the "for"
statement at line 5055 is not written correctly.

[Tomas Pospisek]

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Could you verify, that this fails with the version from CVS too?
*t

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I downloaded the CVS archive for Mailsync.

There is no configure file, only the configure.ac and
autogen.sh files.

I installed automake and autoconf on my system, then ran
autogen.sh. The configure file was not made.

I then ran:
autoconf configure.ac > configure
chmod o+x configure
./configure

configure did not find the above libraries.

I then modified line 4768 and added the echo ${p} statement
similar to above. This is the result:

checking for libssl... not found
checking for krb5-config... not found
checking for pam library... not found
checking for c-client.h... {/usr/local/include/c-
client,/usr,/usr/local}{,/c-client,/lib/c-client,/include/c-
client,/include,/include/imap}
not found
configure: error: a working c-client installation is required for
building mailsync

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Installed BASH and ran configure from Mailsync 5.1.0 release.
Configure ran perfectly and detected all libraries.

Recommend changing README/INSTALL documents to note
that configure is known to run from BASH, and that it may
not be sufficient to run from sh/csh on FreeBSD 4.9, for
example.

[Tomas Pospisek]

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Following what I read on the net, /bin/sh *must* be linked
to a posix compliant shell [1]. AFAICS the following:

BLA=sometext

is a POSIX compliant statement [2]. However on my machine,
csh doesn't understand that:

$ csh
executing .alias
Badly placed ()'s.
tpo2:~> BLA=sometext
BLA=sometext: Command not found.

I concurr that csh is not POSIX compliant, and you should
fix your system and point /bin/sh to ksh or bash or something.

Or am I wrong?
*t

[1] http://www.calpoly.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sh+1
[2]
http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/sh-posix.1.html

[Tomas Pospisek]

I'm closing this ticket, because:

• since filing this ticket there have been multiple mailsync releases since, that maybe fix the autotools stuff
• autotools have evolved as well

all these arguments above are maybe nonsense because the main problem seems to be that:

• csh did not seem to be compatible with autotools at the time

So I won't be fix this: building mailsync with csh is currently not supported and I am not planing to work on csh support