[asterisk-users] Voicemail IMAP ./configure error

[c james]

Mark Michelson wrote:
> c james wrote:
>> I have c-client installed on a 64bit system running Gentoo.  I am trying
>> to run configure so I can test the IMAP voicemail functionality. But
>>
>> asterisk-1.4.22 # ./configure --with-imap=/usr/include/imap
>>
>> just gives me the following error.
>>
>> checking for gnutls_bye in -lgnutls... no
>> checking for UW IMAP Toolkit c-client library... no
>> checking for system c-client library...... no
>> configure: ***
>> configure: *** The UW IMAP Toolkit installation on this system appears
>> to be broken.
>> configure: *** Either correct the installation, or run configure
>> configure: *** including --without-imap.
>>
>> c-client is installed.
>>
>> voicemail1 asterisk-1.4.22 # equery files c-client
>> [ Searching for packages matching c-client... ]
>> * Contents of net-libs/c-client-2006k:
>> /usr/include/imap/c-client.h
>>   ... bunch of others
>> /usr/include/imap/utf8aux.h
>> /usr/lib64/c-client.a
>> /usr/lib64/libc-client.a -> c-client.a
>> /usr/lib64/libc-client.so.1.0.0
>>
> 
> Interesting output there.
> 
> If you specify "--with-imap=/usr/src/imap" then that means that the source for 
> the imap toolkit is located at /usr/src/imap. It appears though, that only the 
> c-client source is located there (or perhaps just the headers), and that causes 
> the configure script to fail. If you specify just "--with-imap" with no argument 
> or "--with-imap=system" then the configure script will try to find the c-client 
> library and include files in common places where distributions tend to install them.
> 
> I'm guessing, though, that you did not download and compile the imap toolkit 
> yourself and that you had Gentoo do it for you. The installation directory for 
> the headers is different than where most distros place them. Most put the 
> c-client header files in /usr/include/c-client instead of /usr/include/imap.
> 
> My suggestions for possible fixes are
> 
> 1) Try reconfiguring with just --with-imap or with --with-imap=system instead of 
> specifying a directory. I'm suspecting this will not work properly because of 
> the directory where the header files are, though.
> 
> 2) If step 1 fails like I think it will, then try moving the .h files from 
> /usr/include/imap to /usr/include/c-client and rerun the configure script 
> --with-imap and see if that helps. I suspect this will work. If it does, I can 
> modify the configure script so that we search in the imap/ directory as well as 
> the c-client directory for header files.
> 
> If things still fail after those two steps, then respond with the section from 
> the config.log file which displays the failure that occurred when searching for 
> imap support.
> 
> Mark Michelson
> 
>

You are correct, c-client was installed through the Gentoo portage
command of

emerge c-client

Neither of the two suggestions worked.  Here is the relevant output from
config.log

configure:18552: checking for UW IMAP Toolkit c-client library
configure:18630: gcc -o conftest -g -O2
-I/usr/src/asterisk-1.4.22/../imap-2004g/c-client  conftest.c
/usr/src/asterisk-1.4.22/../imap-2004g/c-client/c-client.a  >&5
gcc: /usr/src/asterisk-1.4.22/../imap-2004g/c-client/c-client.a: No such
file or directory
conftest.c:145:22: error: c-client.h: No such file or directory