Re: [Evolution-hackers] Checking application of extensions and plugins for a software test installation

[Markus Elfring <Markus Elfring web de>]

> to be honest, I did not notice any "program start parameters" you are
> mentioning now, to be in the original post of this thread.

See also:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-hackers/2020-November/msg00000.html

Repetition:
elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe> LANG=C 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/lib/evolution:/home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/lib/evolution/plugins:/home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/lib/evolution/modules
 home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/bin/evolution

By the way:
I installed the software package “libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37” (2.30.2-1.1) yesterday afternoon.
Now I stumble also on the following error message.

home/elfring/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5/Probe/bin/evolution: symbol lookup error: 
/usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: undefined symbol: wpe_fdo_initialize_shm


> More importantly, you did not tell us *how* you build the Evolution.
> You use CMake, of course, but that's far from the answer for the *how*.

I wonder about such an information.

Another repetition:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1199

elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Gnome/Evolution/lokal> git checkout 3.36.5 && cmake -G Ninja -S . -B 
~/Projekte/Bau/Evolution/3.36.5


> Anyway, the Edit->Plugin Manager is added as an evolution-plugin-manager.so module.

Thanks for such background information.


>                                     Maybe Evolution claims runtime
> warnings on the console,

Some were displayed.


>                          or it doesn't load any module (if that's
> true - you didn't tell us - then you may see an empty Evolution window.

The application window was usable for a simple test run on my system.


> I mean really empty, no Mail, no Contacts, no Calendar, ... just a gray

I did not observe such an effect.


> Why is that so is the question. It can be that your CMAKE_INSTALL_DIR
> doesn't match the place you install the files to (due to the DESTDIR usage?).

I find it unlikely that this detail matters here actually.



> Do fix that and the things will work. From my point of view,
> you misunderstand and misuse the DESTDIR variable. But I can be wrong,
> in either or both statements.

I wonder about such feedback.


>                               Again, anybody else using the DESTDIR
> uses it successfully,

I got the impression that this variable is usually working also for me
as expected.


>                       only you have problem with it.

* I can stumble on additional software surprises.

* Other developers can not benefit from such a variable because of
  special file systems.


>                                       If you are doing some magics
> nobody has an idea of, then you are in it on your own. I'm sorry.

Magic items will probably not be needed for the clarification of software behaviour.


> Note this is not about alternative build ways, you can build the software
> the way it works the best for you. If you have issues, then try the
> Building wiki page, check what you've done differently and try to find
> out what you do wrong, because you surely do something wrong.

Who would like to help with mentioned program start arguments
and related dependencies?

Regards,
Markus