[evolution/wip/webkit2] Update README file
- From: Milan Crha <mcrha src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [evolution/wip/webkit2] Update README file
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:51:34 +0000 (UTC)
commit aefbaa08444cf20ea7ea672737ea0a8aea7370ef
Author: Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>
Date: Mon Feb 29 12:39:51 2016 +0100
Update README file
The information there had been outdated, for example Evolution doesn't
use ORBit for a very long time now.
README | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1612e19..8b3cfeb 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ users mailing list. If you are interested in contributing to
development on it, you should certainly subscribe to the Evolution
Hackers mailing list. Visit
- https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo
+ https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo
to subscribe or view archives of the Evolution mailing lists.
@@ -20,10 +20,9 @@ to change).
There is also a #evolution IRC channel on irc.gnome.org.
Help for Evolution is available in the user manual (select "Help" from
-the menu after running the application), at the Novell knowledge base
-(http://support.novell.com), in the Evolution man page (run "man
-evolution" at the command line), and in the --help strings (run
-"evolution --help" at the command line).
+the menu after running the application), at the GNOME users help site
+(https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/), and in the --help strings
+(run "evolution --help" at the command line).
The rest of this file is dedicated to building Evolution.
@@ -31,10 +30,10 @@ The rest of this file is dedicated to building Evolution.
DEPENDENCIES
------------
-In order to build Evolution you need to have the full set of GNOME 2.6
+In order to build Evolution you need to have the full set of GNOME 3
(or greater) development libraries installed.
-GNOME 2.6 or greater comes with most of the modern distributions, so
+GNOME 3 or greater comes with most of the modern distributions, so
in most cases it should be enough to just install all the devel
packages from your distribution.
@@ -44,40 +43,31 @@ installed, since bugs in the libraries can cause bugs in Evolution.
Additional dependencies, besides the stock GNOME libraries (the
dependencies should be compiled in the order they are listed here):
- * gnome-icon-theme 1.2.0 or later
+ * evolution-data-server of the same version as the Evolution is
- * ORBit 2.9.8 or later
+ ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server
- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup
-
- * libsoup 2.2.1 or later
+ * libsoup 2.42 or later
- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup
+ ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup
- * evolution-data-server 1.1.1 or later
+ * WebKitGTK+ 2.4.9
- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server
+ http://webkitgtk.org/releases/
- * gtkhtml 3.5.0 or later
+ * Mozilla NSPR/NSS libraries
- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml
+ These are needed if you want to compile Evolution with SSL and S/MIME
+ support.
- * [Optional] Mozilla NSPR/NSS libraries
-
- These are needed if you want to compile Evolution with SSL and S/MIME
- support.
-
- http://www.mozilla.org/
+ http://www.mozilla.org/
Many distributions ship these as Mozilla development
packages.
- * [Optional] gnome-spell 1.0.1 or later
-
- This is only necessary if you want to have the spell
- checking functionality in Evolution's message composer.
-
- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-spell
+Other dependencies are claimed during the ./configure phase. If these are
+optional, also a parameter for the ./configure to not use that dependency
+is shown.
CONFIGURING EVOLUTION
---------------------
@@ -95,39 +85,42 @@ that something goes wrong and your GNOME installation gets ruined.
If you want to install in a different prefix, you need to do the
following things:
- * Set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to contain a
- colon-separated list of all the pkg-config directories that
- will be involved in the build. This basically means a list
- of $prefix/lib/pkgconfig directory names, where $prefix is
- the prefix where a library is installed.
+ * Set the environment variables to contain a colon-separated list
+ of all the directories that will be involved in the build.
+ The environment variables are ACLOCAL_FLAGS, GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR,
+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
- For example, if you have GNOME installed in /usr and you
+ For example, if you have GNOME installed in /usr and you
are installing Evolution and its dependencies in
/opt/evolution, you want to do something like the following
(assuming you are using Bash):
- export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/evolution/lib/pkgconfig
+ export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/evolution/share/aclocal"
+ export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR="/opt/evolution/share/glib-2.0/schemas"
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/evolution/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ export PATH=/opt/evolution/bin:$PATH
+ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/evolution/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
- * Edit the bonobo-activation-config.xml file (which is
- normally found in /etc/bonobo-activation/) to include the
+ * Edit the D-Bus session-local.conf file (which is normally
+ search for by D-Bus in /etc/dbus-1/) to include the
location where you are installing Evolution.
- In the example given above (GNOME in /usr, Evolution and
+ In the example given above (GNOME in /usr, Evolution and
dependencies in /opt/evolution), your
- bonobo-activation-config.xml will have to look like this:
+ session-local.conf will have to look like this:
- <?xml version="1.0"?>
- <oafconfig>
- <searchpath>
- <item>/usr/lib/bonobo/servers</item>
- <item>/opt/evolution/lib/bonobo/servers</item>
- </searchpath>
- </oafconfig>
+ <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
+ "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
+ "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
+ <busconfig>
+ <!-- Search for .service files in /usr/local -->
+ <servicedir>/opt/evolution/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>
+ </busconfig>
- * Pass an appropriate --prefix parameter to the configure
+ * Pass an appropriate --prefix parameter to the configure
scripts of Evolution and its dependencies, eg:
- ./configure --prefix=/opt/evolution
+ ./configure --prefix=/opt/evolution
More information on how to use the configure script is available in
the INSTALL file which is part of the Evolution tarball.
@@ -137,12 +130,17 @@ OPTIONAL FEATURES
-----------------
Some optional features can be enabled at compilation time by passing
-appropriate flags to the configure script:
+appropriate flags to the configure script. You can get list of all
+of the configure option by running:
+
+ ./configure --help
- * SSL support.
+BUILDING EVOLUTION
+------------------
- Make sure you have Mozilla's NSS nad NSPR libraries
- installed and pass the following flag:
+After the Evolution is properly configured, run:
- --enable-nss
+ make
+ make install
+to build it.
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