Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution and NSS

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:07, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Enj , 2003-12-11 at 16:52, Ross Burton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is Evolution intended to be built without NSS?  I've disabled NSS in
> > configure and get many, many compile errors in evolution/mail.
> 
> It currently does not work. NSS is required by the S/MIME stuff now, as
> well as for SSL support in the mailer. It is not recommended to build
> without it. The OpenSSL code for the mailer doesn't even build anymore,
> and I've informally asked that it be removed from CVS until such time as
> someone is willing to maintain it. I guess I should cook up a more
> formal mail for this list.
> 
> > Should I file a bug about this, or is building without NSS not supported
> > any more?
> 
> There is a bug open already.
> 
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50267

It should be building without NSS though, I built it one week ago
without difficulty under 2.6 and no NSS.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.