Qmail Installation Problem 1

[rpete]

Hi,
Can I get a few suggestions on solving configuration problems in Part #5. (./configure --enable.......)

Some of the checks turned out "no" but I believe the one for MySql caused the failure.

checking whether roaming-users has been enabled... no
checking whether learn-passwords is enabled... no
... removed
checking whether file-sync is enabled... no
.....
checking whether sqwebmail-pass is enabled... no
checking whether qmail-ext is enabled... no
checking whether ip-alias-domains is enabled... no
checking whether an auth module has been specified... mysql
configure: error: Unable to find your MySQL inc dir, specify --enable-incdir.

How do I specify this or what do I need to install to get past this problem? I've searched for a auth module and could not find one.

I'm installing on Fedora 13.

Thanks for any help
Ray

 

[Noway2]

Welcome to Tek-Tips Ray!

It looks like the most common cause of this error is not having the proper headers. Do you have the mysql-devel package which installs the headers?

Another suggestion would be to try --enable-libdir=/usr/lib, or wherever your lib directory is. At the very least make sure this isn't set to some bogus location in the configuration script, but a combination of the two may be necessary.

 

[rpete]

Thanks for the info Noway2.

This helped me to target in on where the problem was. With this fedora release the 64 bit libraries are in /lib64 so I added --enable-libdir=/lib64 and configure worked.

(I'm adding this in case someone else runs into this problem)
make && make install-strip failed with a linker error saying it could not find -L/lib64 lmysqlclient. To get out this I changed the Makefile in the 26 places it had -L/lib64 lmysqlclient to -L/usr/lib64/mysql lmysqlclient. This allowed me to proceed to part 6.

Could give me an idea of the configure problem in part 6 where config.guess (called from configure) believes this is an unknown-linuxoldld and fails. It may be because the output of ld_help is not recognized.

I know my profile says programmer but my background is really an Oracle DBA.

any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Ray

 

[cejohnsonsr]

Could you be a little more specific? Part 5 of what book or howto?

Ed

 

[rpete]

This is from the qmail rocks website:

http://www.qmailrocks.org/install_rh.htm

part #5 is installing vpopmail