Bug 168986

Summary:	net-mail/courier-imap fails to start with USE=fam and gamin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Källdén <peter.kallden>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	robbat2
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter Källdén 2007-03-02 11:03:14 UTC

when you got gamin instead of fam in your system, which is 100% library compatible with fam and you compile courier-imap with fam it tries to link against the fam lib libfam.so instead of libgamin-1.so. Files that need to be changed: ./maildir/configure.in and ./maildir/configure. replace -lfam with -lgamin-1. if you change those files before configure: 1 courier-imap starts and 2 the gamin service is run and working as it should.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Peter Källdén 2007-03-02 11:24:44 UTC

I might have been a bit quick there.. I had both fam and gamin in my system,
and so I thought that when it linked against fam that was wrong... in my case
it was, but usually libfam libs are from the gamin package. so this is probably  a non issue.

however the init script tries to start the famd daemon.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-02 11:27:38 UTC

Closing INVALID; this has worked just fine out-of-the-box for ages. Plus it's plain impossible to install fam *and* gamin at the same time via portage, they block each other.