Re: [Evolution] "Relocating" Evolution, Connector

[Jeff Boerio <boerio ichips intel com>]

Chris,

Thanks for the note.  Troubleshooting indicates that adding
$EVO/lib/evolution/1.2 to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH fixed the problem.

     - Jeff

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:48, Chris Toshok wrote:
> It's not usually a good idea to relocate binary packages (especially
> those that contain data files, since the paths to those files are often
> generated at compile time).
>
> What happens when you run "evolution-exchange-storage" from a terminal
> window.  If it doesn't start up properly then something is wrong with
> the connector..  If it starts up it's an OAF problem.
>
> Chris
>
> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 09:48, Jeff Boerio wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully built v1.2 of Evolution for a location other
> > than /usr/bin?  Have you been able to plug in Connector to it?
> >
> > I've been pretty unsuccessful in doing so.  I have a "wrapper" for
> > launching evolution and it looks like this:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > EVO=/usr/local/evolution/1.2.0
> > GNOME=/usr/local/gnome/1.4.0
> > PATH=${GNOME}/bin:${EVO}/bin:${PATH}
> >
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${GNOME}/lib:${EVO}/lib
> > OAF_INFO_PATH=${GNOME}/share/oaf:${EVO}/share/oaf
> >
> > export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH OAF_INFO_PATH
> >
> > ${EVO}/bin/evolution.bin ${ +"$@"}
> > ## End
> >
> > In order to "plug in" the Connector RPM, I used rpm2cpio piped to cpio
> > and installed it in $EVO.
> >
> > Whenever I would launch evolution, I would get the following dialog box:
> >
> > "Cannot activate component
> > OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_ExchangeStorage_ShellComponent: The error from
> > the activation system is:  Child process did not give an error message,
> > unknown failure occurred.  [OK]"
> >
> > I broke down and tried to install Connector into /usr, modified my
> > wrapper script so that /usr/lib and /usr/share/oaf were included in the
> > respective variables, but I still get the error message.
> >
> > So, has anyone done this?  
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >      - Jeff
> >
> >
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Jeff Boerio <boerio ichips intel com>
IT Engineering Computing, DPG-OR