problems with imap and imsp installation

[Phil Chambers]

I have just installed a new Sun box running Solaris 8 and expected that installing 
the cyrus IMAP and IMSP packages would be simple!

First I installed BerkleyDB.3.3 and Perl and they went OK.

Then I picked up cyrus-sasl -2.1.13 and installed that once I sorted out the 
--with-... and --disable-... options I needed.  Not too bad.

Then cyrus-imapd-2.1.13 and that seemed to install OK, again, once I had sorted out 
the configure options I needed.  The IMAP and POP server side seem to run and 
respond to telnet connections and imtest worked.

I then tried to use cyradm to add some users and that is where it went downhill!
I get the following

Can't load '/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so' for module Cyrus::IMAP: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so: symbol sasl_client_init: referenced symbol not found at /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line 169.
 at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 44
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 44.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Cyrus/IMAP/Shell.pm line 60.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

As far as I can make out, this is a dynamic library problem, but I have completely 
failed to find a cure for it.

Help with that will be most welcome.

I then moved on to IMSP and downloaded cyrus-imspd-v1.6a3 and tried to build that.  
This failed because there is no config.h.in present!  I looked at v1.5.28 and that 
has the same problem.  On further reading I found that both these versions need 
version 1.5.x of sasl.  I had just installed 2.1.13 because that is what IMAP needs! 
So I downloaded cyrusimsp from cvs to get a version which would work with 2.1.13.  
It now seems I need autoconf (and aclocal and autoheader?) before I can make more 
progress with that.

Will this never end?

Surely, thousands of people must have installed the cyrus imap/imsp combination on 
Solaris 8 without anything like this trouble?

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
University of Exeter