Subversion repository

The following applies for the entire the Courier mail server source code distribution, and sub-modules (the Courier IMAP server, sqwebmail, maildrop).

In order to build from the Subversion repository, you must have the following additional software installed:

  1. autoconf.
  2. automake.
  3. libtool
  4. gettext
  5. gmake, of course.
  6. sysconftool - this is an extra autoconf macro used by the Courier mail server's configure.in script (not needed, of course, to build sysconftool itself).
  7. The following tools that convert Docbook XML to HTML and man page documentation: various Docbook DTDS, the "docbook-utils" tools, the "sgml-common/xml-common" package, which are conveniently aggregated in Red Hat's docbook-tools directory; Docbook XSL stylesheets; XHTML 1.0 XSL stylesheets; HTML 4.01 stylesheets; the Gnome XSLT library, and the current version of the tidy tool. NOTE: Most systems already include packages for all of these tools. It's rather unfeasible to try to assemble this entire toolkit yourself, find these packages and install them.

These additional dependencies are only required if building from Subversion, and not the packaged tarballs.

Subversion trunks:

Run "svn checkout URL" to check out each package.

NOTE: Automatically-generated configure and Makefile, libtool, and sysconftool scripts are NOT stored in the repository, and you must build them yourself. Fortunately, it's very easy to do this. Simply run the following command after checking out any one of these modules:

    sh autobloat

The autobloat script automatically runs automake, autoconf, libtool, sysconftool, from the current directory.

NOTE: The "courier" module is the entire mail server. The other modules extract selected portions, with a different top-level makefile that builds a standalone package. You only need to obtain the courier module, to get the source code for the Courier mail server. See Introduction for more information.