Re: [Evolution-hackers] Questions on development environment

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On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 06:39, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:46, Gary Ekker wrote:
> > I am new to linux and am interested in getting involved in the
> > evolution project. I have a few questions about getting started. What
> > is the preferred method of setting up a development environment for
> > evolution? Do most of you use emacs, or is there something better? Any
> > tips and tricks that will help to avoid problems and keep my
> > environment simple would be appreciated.
>
> As far as editors, I believe most of us use gnu emacs, the remainder of
> us use some form of vi or another.
I think all the core evolution developers use emacs or xemacs ...  But its up to you.  Emacs makes ChangeLogs and the basic indenting easy.

> you'll want to install xd2 and the xd2 devel packages. (easier to just
> use packages than it is to compile all the gnome libs manually). I only
> build libsoup, gal, gtkhtml and evolution sources manually, but install
> them into a separate prefix.
But for head development (and the 1.4.x stuff is going into maintainence mode, so thats where you want to go), some of the xd2 stuff isn't new enough.  Something like jhbuild (?) might be the go, although I haven't used it, and do a lot of things manually.

> for example, I have /opt/evo14 for evolution 1.4 development and
> /opt/evo2 for evolution 2.0 development.
>
> attached to this message is my evo14.env shell script which I run before
> starting development by doing:
>
> . ~/evo14.env
>
> I have a similar one for evolution 2.0 (just change the paths in the
> script)
>
> you'll also want to add the appropriate search paths to
> /etc/bonobo-activation-server.xml (or whatever it is). I think there's a
> way to do it without editing the file manually, but I forget off the top
> of my head.
You can just set BONOBO_ACTIVATION_PATH to a colon separates list of the the 'servers' directories to search. e.g. BONOBO_ACTIVATION_PATH=/opt/gnome2/lib/bonobo/servers:/usr/lib/bonobo/servers

> before you can start building and installing evoXX into /opt/evoXX,
> you'll need to do the following:
>
> mkdir -p /opt/evoXX/share/aclocal
>
> if you don't do that, autoconf (or aclocal) will fail because it can't
> find the directory.
Thats weird Jeff, what on earth have you done to your system :)

> hope that helps,
>
> Jeff
>
> >  
> > Thanks.
> >  
> > -Gary