> Oh yes sorry, indeed ./configure generates dovecot-config.in from > dovecot-config.in.in (been a while since I looked at this). Upon > executing 'make' it is transformed into the definitive dovecot-config > using the following make rule (Makefile.am in top Dovecot source dir): Yes, after (pkgsrc) make build it's there.
> For compilation of these tools and the testsuite, the fully built sources > are needed because the Dovecot static libraries are linked But these are all in .../lib/dovecot (/usr/pkg/lib/dovecot, in my case), aren't they? > If you care only for the Sieve plugin, this should not not matter. I'm mostly after the plugin. > BTW, I am wondering: did you do exactly the same for the old cmusieve > before? And you didn't encounter any problems? With cmusieve, $dovecotdir pointed to .../lib/dovecot, not the source tree.