Re: [evince] How to build from source on ubuntu lucid

[Jan-Joost Spanjers <jj hiberis nl>]

On Monday, January 3, 2011, BM <automessagebuffer gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
> could somebody please post a tutorial on how to build an evince copy
> from source on Ubuntu (lucid)? I'm interested in building a modified
> copy of evince (I'd like to add background/font colour change
> selection component) but now I really got stuck (after all hard work
> of understanding what libraries I need to add and finally succeeding
> to compile the source I get "/usr/local/lib/evince/2/backends" when
> running  ./shell/evince

Try running:
make install

Or:
sudo make install

> Why it is trying to open that directory, why the original evince
> executable doesn't crash for the same reason?

I think it was configured with:
./configure --prefix=/usr

> If I should set some kind of variable, why the script didn't asked me to? )
> I think a good "how-to, (I mean step-by step)" is the answer to all my
> questions and also a good starting point for persons that would like
> to develop open source.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Mario Balaban.
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