More on RedHat 8.0, Cyrus compile problems

[Ken Murchison]

Luke Johnson wrote:
> 
> So... How about some free advice then... :)
> 
> In the List's opinion... starting from scratch, which is better (for a
> production server)...
> 
> RH8.0/gcc3.x and CVS cyrus packages
> or
> RH7.3/gcc2.x and stable cyrus-imapd-2.1.9/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7
> 
> Will gcc3.x be the 'new, have to have thing' and handy for possible
> future cyrus upgrades, or for a production server is predictabilty of
> gcc2.x and the stable packages more important?

I don't think that the compiler version matters, as long as it works
with the packages.

I don't _think_ that CVS is unstable, in fact I run the current CVS
(updated almost every day) on my production/development box).  Of
course, since I made a lot of recent changes to CVS (new 'at=<hhmm>'
option for EVENTs and -T <timeout> -U <uses> options for SERVICES), this
statement will probably blow up in my face  ;)
> 

> Also, this dove-tails into the start of this thread about known RH7.3
> versus a x.0 release, with the difference of this is a new setup, no
> prexisting machine to consider.  My new box will be a mail only box, so
> probably little chance of running into many buggy packages.  So would
> 8.0 be worth a try, since it contains lots of new stuff (sendmail,
> berkley, etc), or stick to patched up RH7.3?  (BTW, Our shop is all
> Redhat, so no flames about changing that..out of my hands)

I'd be wary of any .0 release.

> Thanks again, (esp. to Ken for my first answer!)

No problem.

> Ken Murchison wrote:
> > No released version of Cyrus and SASL will work with gcc3.  You'll have
> > to grab both from CVS.
> >
> >
> > Luke Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>Hey there, having a little compile problem, think it might be gcc3.2 ...
> >>
> >>I'm wondering if anybody has a real simple solution that I'm missing, or
> >>maybe even similar experiences?  Well, here's the story:
> >>
> >>Just put together a cyrus-imapd-2.1.9/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7 box last week on
> >>RH7.3 with the following configurations, and had zero problems -
> >>
> >>[root at newmail cyrus-sasl-2.1.7]# ./configure --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc
> >>--disable-krb4 --with-dbpath=/usr/local/etc/sasldb
> >>--includedir=/usr/local/include  --enable-plain --enable-login
> >>--disable-java --disable-gssapi --with-mysql=/usr/lib/mysql
> >>--without-pam --with-rc4=openssl --with-saslauthd
> >>--with-bdb-incdir=/usr/local/include/db4
> >>--with-bdb-libdir=/usr/local/lib --includedir=/usr/include/mysql
> >>
> >>[root at newmail cyrus-imapd-2.1.9]# ./configure
> >>--with-cyrus-prefix=/usr/cyrus --with-dbdir=/usr/local
> >>--with-cyrus-group=mail --with-auth=unix --without-zephyr
> >>--with-com-err --with-auth=unix --with-ucdsnmp=/usr/lib
> >>--with-sasl=/usr/local/include
> >>
> >>Decided to redo the same setup this week on RH8.0, same packages, same
> >>configures.  Things blew up...
> >>
> >>[root at newmail cyrus-sasl-2.1.7]# make
> >>make  all-recursive
> >>make[1]: Entering directory `/home/luke/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7'
> >>Making all in include
> >>make[2]: Entering directory `/home/luke/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7/include'
> >>make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> >>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/luke/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7/include'
> >>Making all in sasldb
> >>make[2]: Entering directory `/home/luke/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7/sasldb'
> >>gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include   -I/usr/local/include
> >>-I/usr/lib/mysql  -Wall -W -g -O2 -c ../sasldb/db_none.c
> >>cc1: warning: changing search order for system directory
> >>"/usr/local/include"
> >>cc1: warning:   as it has already been specified as a non-system directory
> >>In file included from /usr/include/sys/uio.h:29,
> >>                  from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:27,
> >>                  from ../config.h:352,
> >>                  from ../sasldb/db_none.c:46:
> >>/usr/include/bits/uio.h:43: redefinition of `struct iovec'
> >>make[2]: *** [../sasldb/db_none.o] Error 1
> >>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/luke/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7/sasldb'
> >>make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/luke/cyrus-sasl-2.1.7'
> >>make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> >>[root at newmail cyrus-sasl-2.1.7]#
> >>
> >>Initially I fixed this error by commenting out some stuff in uio.h, but
> >>I just ran into more library errors (lots of warnings, and eventually a
> >>missing function definition) after that, decided to stop and email the
> >>list before I spent all day massaging libraries and configs...
> >>
> >>Anybody see a simple error on my part (that would be nice), or know if
> >>there is a issue at large with the Cyrus/Redhat distributions?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>LukeJ.
> >
> >

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