Building on FreeBSD 14.4

Frank Volf via dovecot <[email protected]> Mon, 18 May 2026 01:59:56 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.dovecot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I'm trying to build dovecot-2.4.4 on FreeBSD 14.4 and I get a strange 
error message.

What I did is download and extract dovecot-2.4.4.tar.gz and then run 
./configure without any arguments.
After typing make the build started without any problems until this point:

    ....
    Making all in auth
       CC       test_auth_cache-auth-cache.o
       CC       test_auth_cache-test-auth-cache.o
       CC       auth-main.o
       CC       auth-auth.o
       CC       auth-auth-cache.o
       CC       auth-auth-client-connection.o
       CC       auth-auth-master-connection.o
       CC       auth-auth-policy.o
       CC       auth-auth-penalty.o
       CC       auth-auth-request.o
       CC       auth-auth-request-fields.o
       CC       auth-auth-request-handler.o
       CC       auth-auth-request-var-expand.o
       CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-apop.o
       CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-dovecot-token.o
       CC       auth-auth-sasl-mech-oauth2.o
       CC       auth-auth-sasl.o
       CC       auth-auth-settings.o
       CC       auth-auth-fields.o
       CC       auth-auth-token.o
       CC       auth-auth-worker-connection.o
       CC       auth-auth-worker-server.o
       CC       auth-db-oauth2.o
       CC       auth-db-sql.o
       CC       auth-db-passwd-file.o
       CC       auth-passdb.o
       CC       auth-passdb-blocking.o
       CC       auth-passdb-bsdauth.o
       CC       auth-passdb-cache.o
       CC       auth-passdb-oauth2.o
       CC       auth-passdb-passwd.o
       CC       auth-passdb-passwd-file.o
       CC       auth-passdb-pam.o
       CC       auth-passdb-sql.o
       CC       auth-passdb-static.o
       CC       auth-userdb.o
       CC       auth-userdb-blocking.o
       CC       auth-userdb-passwd.o
       CC       auth-userdb-passwd-file.o
       CC       auth-userdb-prefetch.o
       CC       auth-userdb-static.o
       CC       auth-userdb-sql.o
       CC       auth-db-ldap.o
       CC       auth-db-ldap-sasl.o
       CC       auth-db-ldap-settings.o
       CC       auth-passdb-ldap.o
       CC       auth-userdb-ldap.o
       CC       auth-db-lua.o
       CC       auth-passdb-lua.o
       CC       auth-userdb-lua.o
    make[3]: don't know how to make -L/usr/local/lib. Stop

    make[3]: stopped making "all" in /home/volf/dovecot-2.4.4/src/auth
    *** Error code 1

So, apparently make is confused and thinks that the compiler/linker 
commandline option is an item to build.
I'm at loss how to solve this.

I would appreciate it, if somebody could give me a hint how to solve this.

Kind regards,

Frank

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