Rebuilding all-settings.c on every ./configure run #265
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…re were situations where a prebuilt all-settings.c would get stale in relation to the actual configuration, leading to all kinds of obscure failures downstream. This manifests itself, e.g., in relation to building on macOS, where the all-settings.c bundled with the official source release would include imap-hibernate, which is not available on macOS. For this reason, the homebrew project explicitly `rm`s the file prior to building.
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The problem with this change is that we intentionally didn't want to require Perl for building Dovecot from a tarball. Doesn't the BUILD_IMAP_HIBERNATE handling in configure already fix this? Or could be changed somehow further to fix this? Adding some |
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(Defensively) rebuilding
all-settings.con every./configurerun. There were situations where a prebuiltall-settings.cwould get stale in relation to the actual configuration, leading to all kinds of obscure failures downstream. This manifests itself, e.g., in relation to building on macOS, where theall-settings.cbundled with the official source release would includeimap-hibernate, which is not available on macOS. For this reason, the homebrew project explicitlyrms the file prior to building. This commit gets rid of the need for the ugly downstream workaround (see Homebrew/homebrew-core@8eed350). @cho-m