Re: [Evolution] gtkhtml very unstable

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

On 27 Apr 2001 04:59:11 +0000, dan hensley att net wrote:
> > On 27 Apr 2001 02:42:19 +0000, dan hensley att net wrote:
> > > I'm sure this is known, but in case it isn't...  gtkhtml
> > > crashes very quickly (latest anoncvs) when opening a
> > > Compose window or replying or fowarding an e-mail.  It
> > > dies as soon as I hit <CR>.  When I exit, I get this
> > > message:
> >
> > This is a bug in ORBit that is fixed in the orbit-stable-0-5 branch in
> > CVS but still active in 0.5.7.  
>
> Stealth changes like this aren't very nice.  I didn't see
> anything about this in the gtkhtml Changelogs, so I never
> would have figured this out.  Shouldn't ORBit's version number
> have been bumped and gtkhtml's dependencies as well?

This isn't a stealth change, this is a bug, a bug in ORBit 0.5.7 that
happened by chance to already be fixed in CVS on the orbit-stable-0-5
branch.  If you can't deal with things breaking while under development
please don't use CVS.

> > It's already fixed if you get the right ORBit, we're working on plans
> > for the next release.
>
> I updated ORBit from CVS, and it compiled fine.  But when
> I tried to install it, I got
>
> Making install in everything
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dhensley/dev/OO/test/everything'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dhensley/dev/OO/test/everything'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dhensley/dev/OO/test'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
> Then I tried Evolution, and it still had the problem.  What
> should I try next?

This looks like problem on your end.

--Larry