Re: [Evolution] evolution crashing randomly

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 12:04 -0500 schrieb George Reeke:
> Dear Tom,
>    Thanks for your suggestion.
>    In the past, when I have tried to build the latest evolution in
> the context of a system tied to even the latest RedHat version
> (due to our University maintenance agreement), I find there are
> numerous library incompatibilities and I have not been successful.
> I suppose I need to set up a separate directory under /usr/lib
> and place all the required newer libraries there and link
> evolution against those.  Is that what you do?  Does the Makefile
> you indicated take care of all that automatically?  Even after
> all that, I would not be surprised to find further conflicts
> with parts of the RedHat versions of other gnome components.
>    Thanks,
>    George Reeke
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Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 12:36 -0430 wrote Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Unfortunately Paul's Makefile only works for Ubuntu and Debian.

On http://mad-scientist.us/evolution.html, he says:
> Currently the makefile has builtin knowledge of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty
> Fawn), Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), and Debian Etch. The
> distro-specific parts are the ones that check the system for build
> prerequisites; if you have a different distro you can set the distro
> to empty (so it doesn't do any prerequisite check) and cross your
> fingers! If you would like to help get this working on other
> distributions, such as RPM-based systems, I'm interested.

You could just give it a try. Maybe, build the needed gnome libraries
from source and install it into /opt/evo.

> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > > [localbox localhost ~]$ evolution --version
> > > > GNOME evolution 2.24.4
> >
> > Why don't you check out the bleeding edge version. Just grab the Makefile at 
> > http://mad-scientist.us/Makefile
> > and do a 'make all'. It will check out the latest subversion trunk version, configure, build and install 
> > it to /opt/evo. 
> > I do that for several months now and it works very well.
> >
> > thomas
> >
> > P.S.: ... and don't forget to report all those little bugs to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.