Re: [Evolution-hackers] building evolution from source.

["Narendra Sankar" <nsankar broadcom com>]

I had the exact same problem, and managed to solve it.

The problem is due to some internal functions in glib 1.x having different 
return values than the same functions in glib 2.x. So for some reason you 
have evolution linking to both glib 1.x and glib 2.x. In my case it was due 
to soup. Soup was linked to glib 1.x as I had not updated it.

Look at the evolution Make file and figure out why you are linking to glib 1.x

Hope that helps. The actual call that fails is the gnome_vfs_init which tests 
for the existence of ~/.gnome. When it tries to get the path, the 
g_build_pathv function returns NULL.

Hope that helps.

Naren
On Thursday 23 January 2003 08:11 pm, Not Zed wrote:
> Do you have write access go ~/ ?
>
> I'm not really sure, perhaps you could try using strace to see what
> calls are really failing.
>
> On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 09:21, Matt Rose wrote:
> > I finally got evolution to build from source, using GARNOME as a base,
> > and then installing gtkhtml, gal and libsoup from CVS.  Now I can't start
> > evolution, it just spits out this error, and quits.
> >
> > libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome directory: Bad address
> > Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `(null)': Bad
> > address
> >
> > ** WARNING **: ORB: a total of 1 refs to 1 ORB objects were leaked
> >
> > Does anyone know what causes thisw error?  Do I need to upgrade gnomevfs?
> >
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