Re: [Evolution-hackers] Issue list

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

Joe Steeve wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 01:41 +0200, Ángel wrote:
> > I tried compiling evolution and EDS from git but the instructions
> > seemed to require most of gnome at an alternative location and somehow
> > didn't generate an evolution binary. There's probably an easier
> > procedure. 
>
> Are you building with jhbuild?

Yes, that's the tool which downloads half of gnome for building
evolution :)

However, from the 47 packages it wants to build:
* gobject-introspection doesn't compile
* gstreamer doesn't compile (too few arguments to function
'priv_gst_parse_yylex' in grammar.tab.c:1809:7)
* gst-plugins-base then doesn't pass the configure phase as it depends
on gstreamer (Requested 'gstreamer-1.0 >= 1.1.3.1' but version of
GStreamer is 1.1.1.1)
* As gst-plugins-base is unbuildable, WebKit is not built.
* As WebKit is unbuildable, gnome-online-accounts is not built.
* As gnome-online-accounts is unbuildable, libgdata is not built.
* As libgdata and gnome-online-accounts are unbuildable,
evolution-data-server is not built.

udisk, gnome-icon-theme and gtkhtml fail on configure (looks like an
autoconf problem)

* As gnome-online-accounts, gnome-online-accounts and libgdata are
unbuildable, evolution is not built.

So after 3.5 hours it has built a lot of packages that shouldn't have
been needed (as those installed should have been enough) but not the
couple of packages that I was interested with.

Although jhbuild behaves a bit strange, restarting the process it then
starts building WebKit! (albeit it still errors: two-argument yylex
called with only one parameter).