[asterisk-users] Voicemail IMAP ./configure error

[Mark Michelson]

c james wrote:
> 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

I took a look through the log, and it appears that the test program which is 
used to verify a working imap installation is failing in ssl-related functions 
in the c-client library. Perhaps you have a missing openssl dependency?

Mark Michelson