courier-imap install problem !!!!!!!!!!

checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for env... /bin/env
configure: WARNING: === Do not compile Courier-IMAP as root. Compile
configure: WARNING: === Courier-IMAP as a non-root user then su to
configure: WARNING: === root before running make install. You must now
configure: WARNING: === remove this entire directory and then extract the
configure: WARNING: === source code from the tarball as a non-root user
configure: WARNING: === and rerun the configure script. If you have read
configure: WARNING: === the INSTALL file you should have known this. So
configure: WARNING: === you better read INSTALL again.
configure: error: aborted.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.46485 (%prep)


i dont compile this i have tray all way for run this and all time become i this mess message

 

What exactly are you doing if you aren't compiling Courier-IMAP?
Which distribution are you using?

 

centos 5.3 i do what all you write on the best server config page. can u helpme for this problem.
thx. i cant fix the problem. i already tried all ways for to fix this problem. But the result is always same.

 

What tutorial (URL) are you referring to?

 

seems like the problem is the user root, can you login as someone else and try it again?
seems like the directory rights issue!
su - imap (for instance if user imap exists)