Good day christoph, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, ckubu wrote:
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until now, qmail in conjunction with vpopmail works fine. the problem appears when building the courier-authdaemon. the module for authentication against vchkpw is not build. i miss some file like libauthvchkpw.so the gmake output looks like: --- snip --- ... Compiling authvchkpw.c authvchkpw.c: In function `auth_vchkpw_changepass': authvchkpw.c:186: warning: passing arg 1 of `parse_email' discards qualifiers from pointer target type Compiling authvchkpwlib.c Compiling preauthvchkpw.c preauthvchkpw.c: In function `auth_vchkpw_pre': preauthvchkpw.c:67: warning: passing arg 1 of `parse_email' discards qualifiers from pointer target type preauthvchkpw.c:141: warning: passing arg 3 of `vset_lastauth' discards qualifiers from pointer target type Linking libauthvchkpw.la *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lvpopmail. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting *** with libvpopmail and none of the candidates passed a file format test *** using a regex pattern. Last file checked: /home/vpopmail/lib/libvpopmail.a *** Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library *** dependencies of module libauthvchkpw. Therefore, libtool will create *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening *** application is linked with the -dlopen flag. .. --- snip ---
I ran into a problem very similar to this building authdaemon against vpopmail-5.20 under NetBSD-3.1-i386. After a lot of twists and turns I modified the vpopmail source to build libvpopmail as a shared lib as well as static. I am not especially tallented with automake, autoconf and libtool, in fact I had never modified a build to create shared libs. I found an excellent resource on how to do this at: http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html I successfully built libvpopmail.so, and placed it in a location where my build of courier-authdaemon would link against it. The build was successful, and authdaemon is working flawlessly using the authvchkpw module. It was a good learning experience; glad I know how to do this if I find myself in this situation again. HTH -Len
