hi everyone!

this is my first post in this list. sorry for any inconvenience.

i am currently using FreeBSD and am trying to install postfix+courier-imap backed by mysql databases for transport map, virtual map, courier authentication... etc.

the problem is that i cannot compile courier-imap. It fails in the configure script.

i have mysql installed at /usr/local/services/mysql, the corresponding libs are in /usr/local/services/mysql/lib/mysql and the includes are in /usr/local/services/mysql/include/mysql.

configure fails (in authlib directory) when searching for mysql. i tried the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS method and it doesn't work. i tried configuring the code in the authlib directly (i found out that the configure script in authlib directory takes --with-mysql-libs and --with-mysql-includes as parameters) and it still doesn't work.

i am using mysql 4.0.8-gamma which is said to be almost production stable, so i figure the problem does not lie there.

the error i get is: (as you can see, the cppflags and ldflags variables method does not work...yet i use both, just to show. also i try the configure script in authlib because i know the problem is with auth-mysql (it compiles fine without --with-authmysql) and the whole configure takes too long to test again and again)

klansman@arrakis:/usr/src/courier-imap-1.6.2/authlib$ export CPPFLAGS ="-I/usr/local/services/mysql/include/mysql" klansman@arrakis:/usr/src/courier-imap-1.6.2/authlib$ export LDFLAGS= "-L/usr/local/services/mysql/lib/mysql" klansman@arrakis:/usr/src/courier-imap-1.6.2/authlib$ ./configure --w ith-authchangepwdir=/var/tmp/dev/null --with-authmysql --with-mysql-l ibs=/usr/local/lib/mysql/ --with-mysql-includes=/usr/local/include/my sql/ checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes ... ... ... checking for mysql_config... /usr/local/bin/mysql_config checking for mysql_connect... no configure: error: --with-authmysql specified but no mysqlclient.so klansman@arrakis:/usr/src/courier-imap-1.6.2/authlib$

that's my problem.

help?

thank you very much!