Re: [Evolution] "Relocating" Evolution, Connector

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:48, 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?  
yes, I've got evolution, and other GNOME apps compiled from sources, and
installed in /opt/gnome. That's what I've defined:

export PATH=/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/ximian/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib:/opt/ximian/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export OAF_INFO_PATH=/opt/gnome/share/oaf:$OAF_INFO_PATH

the problem you've got, I think, is that oaf is already running when you
start your wrapper script, so it does not take into account the new
OAF_INFO_PATH.

So, put these environment vars in some initialization script, such as
~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession, ~/.bashrc, etc to make sure oaf is started with
the new setting.

cheers
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>