[asterisk-users] Voicemail IMAP ./configure error

[Mark Michelson]

c james wrote:
> 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?
> 

You are correct that conftest.c is a file which is generated on the fly. 
config.log should print the errors generated when trying to compile the test 
program as well as the actual program text below.

Mark Michelson