[asterisk-users] Voicemail IMAP ./configure error

[c james]

Mark Michelson wrote:
> c james wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Yuck. That check for the imap-2004g directory bugs me. It's not anything you've 
> done, but a seemingly arbitrary decision that was made when the original IMAP 
> support was merged. The thing is, if a working IMAP installation is not found in 
> that imap-2004g directory, the configure script is supposed to be "smart" enough 
> to try to switch to the system-installed c-client library instead. Was there any 
> further output down below what you have shown me that mentions something like 
> "Checking for system c-client library...?" If so, could you post the config.log 
> output from that section?
> 
> Mark Michelson
> 

I attached the entire config.log
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