Bug 52838

Summary:	IMAP source does not compile
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jason M. Rinn <jrinn>
Component:	imap	Assignee:	Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-08-29 19:45:34 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Jason M. Rinn 2001-08-29 19:45:30 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Description of problem:
I installed the source RPM for IMAP, expanded it into 
the /usr/src/redhat/BUILD directory, applied all the patches, and 
ran "make slx". It fails with the messages I pasted under "Actual Results".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install source RPM to BUILD directory.
2. Apply patches with echo ../../SOURCES/imap*.patch | patch -p1
3. make slx (or any other linux like target.)
	

Actual Results:  The following errors were seen:
`cat CCTYPE` -c `cat CFLAGS` `cat OSCFLAGS` -c osdep.c
In file included from osdep.c:42:
env_unix.c: In function `do_date':
env_unix.c:296: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without 
a cast
env_unix.c:297: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:297: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:298: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:299: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a 
cast
env_unix.c:301: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:301: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:309: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:312: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:316: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:316: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:316: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:317: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:317: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
env_unix.c:317: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type


Expected Results:  The "make slx" should have completed.

Additional info:

I'm trying to build the UW IMAP tools, which requires a successful make of 
c-client. I got the same error from downloading source from them directly. 
If there is another way to obtain those tools, I would not need the source 
to build.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2001-08-29 21:46:33 UTC

rpm -ba imap.spec  works fine.  If you modify the build procedure, it is
up to you to troubleshoot and solve.  This is not a bug.

To unpack sources and apply patches do:  rpm -bp imap.spec
Change the spec file itself to do what you want if you like.

I don't understand why you want to rebuild the c-client library though
when we include it in the distribution already...

Comment 2 Jason M. Rinn 2001-08-30 03:21:09 UTC

Once I got the right Source RPM, and used the right procedure, it worked fine. 
Sorry for wasting your time.

The reason I needed to rebuild is that the UW utilities, including mbxcvt to 
convert to a better mailbox format, would not build easily with the imap-devel 
RPM. 

Again, thanks for responding, and keep up the good work.