I'm trying to build Cyrus-IMAP on RedHat 7.2. It seems that Cyrus by default installs its perl libs under /usr/local/lib/... (see below), but that the perl binary distributed by RHN only searches /usr/lib/... by default. Rebuilding perl (eg using CPAN) to also include /usr/local/lib is only a temporary solution, as the next up2date may install again an RPM that does not do this.
While I will be asking RH to build the next rpm with support for /usr/local/lib, is there any way to get the Cyrus-imapd installer to place the libs into /usr/lib/... ? I could find nothing in the doc/install.txt file. (This file still lists tcl support for cyradm, but cyradm/README disowns that) regards [root@noisy 5.6.1]# locate Cyrus /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/IMAP /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.bs /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/.packlist /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/acap /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/acap/acap.so /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/acap/acap.bs /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/acap/.packlist /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/managesieve /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/managesieve/manag esieve.so /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/managesieve/manag esieve.bs /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/auto/Cyrus/SIEVE/managesieve/.pack list /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/IMAP.pm /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/IMAP /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/IMSP.pm /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Shell.pm /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/SIEVE /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/SIEVE/acap.pm /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/Cyrus/SIEVE/managesieve.pm [root@noisy 5.6.1]# cyradm Can't locate Cyrus/IMAP/Shell.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .). BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. [root@noisy 5.6.1]# perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.17-0.13smp, archname=i386-linux uname='linux daffy.perf.redhat.com 2.4.17-0.13smp #1 smp fri feb 1 10:30:48 est 2002 i686 unknown ' config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-l inux -Uusethreads -Uuseithreads -Uuselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Dlocincpth=' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil libc=/lib/libc-2.2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: Built under linux Compiled at Feb 20 2002 15:01:16 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl . -- Mathias Körber