[asterisk-users] Voicemail IMAP ./configure error

[c james]

Mark Michelson wrote:
> 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
> 
c-client is built with SSL support. I would like to debug this further,
but I'm not familiar with autoconf.  The line

configure:19034: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -DUSE_SYSTEM_IMAP  conftest.c
-lc-client  >&5

appears to be building conftest.c a file I can't find.  I imagine this
is generated on the fly.  Is there a way to capture that file so I can
examine what it's problems are?