RE: [Evolution] huge RPMs

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc cu-portland edu>]

On 19 Dec 2000 18:25:25 -0500, Christopher James Lahey wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
>
> > But I DO want to compile Evolution myself - that's why I need -devel
> > rpms.
>
> If you're compiling evolution from CVS, I would heavily suggest doing the
> same with gal because there are frequently bug fixes to evolution which
> are actually bug fixes in gal and less frequently, but occasionally, there
> are interface changes that mean a new evolution will require a new gal.
>
> Unfortunately, gtkhtml also requires gal, so I personally compile gtkhtml
> from scratch as well.  Other than this, I personally try to stick to
> packages as much as possible.

I found that I couldn't make evolution work properly unless I compiled
just about the whole thing from CVS.  Since that's such a pain in the
tookus, I wrote up some instructions.  Guess it's time to share them.
You can get my instructions from
http://www.ibiblio.org/gleblanc/instructions_for_evolution/  I think I
have a few changes to integrate, but they should be pretty current.  Be
sure to let me know what I've fouled up.

> One thing that helps a lot in switching back and forth between packages
> and source is compiling all your source to a separate directory.  I use
> /opt/gnome.  This means that when you want to switch back to as many
> packages as you can, you can just remove all the subdirectories of
> /opt/gnome (or whatever), install your packages, and start your compiles
> from scratch.  I did this twice yesterday.  (One thing is that you have to
> create the directory /opt/gnome/share/aclocal (or whatever) by
> hand.  There are also a number of environment variables you have to set,
> but these are documented somewhere.)

I didn't have to create that directory by hand, installing oaf from cvs
created it for me.  I did have to set my ACLOCAL_FLAGS to point there
though.  All that (and more!) is in those instructions.  :)

    Greg