Re: [Evolution] prob with having two versions of Evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

The paths for the image files get set at configure time, so in essence -
the binaries have a hard-coded path for the image files. I'm guessing
that this is the problem.

Jeff

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 15:20, Jennifer Pinkham wrote:
> I currently have a working copy of Evolution v1.0.5 and its 
> corresponding libs. 
>
> I would like to be able to try out the latest snapshot of Evo, 
> along with its required libraries, without disturbing or over 
> writing anything already in existence. 
>
> Since rpm would not let me change the dir that Evo and libs 
> were to be installed in, I used alien to convert the rpms 
> to .tgz files.  I have the snapshot stuff installed in 
> /usr/src/tmp/evolution/ (from here on I will refer to this 
> as $TMP_EVO so it's less for me to type and you to read). 
> I added $TMP_EVO/usr/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf file and ran 
> ldconfig.  I also edited the galConf.sh and gtkhtmlConf.sh (in 
> $TMP_EVO/usr/lib) and added "-I$TMP_EVO/usr/lib" everywhere 
> "/usr/lib" was mentioned. 
>
> I didn't already have the source installed for gal or 
> gtkhtml, so I made symbolic links from $TMP_EVO/usr/include/ 
> gal and gtkhtml dirs to dirs in /usr/include/. 
>
> Once I fixed enough so evo would start up without "cannot 
> load shared object file" errors, now I get this instead: 
>
> evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: file e-splash.c: line 355 (e_splash_new):
> assertion `splash_image_pixbuf != NULL' failed. 
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' 
>
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 724 (gtk_signal_connect):
> assertion `object != NULL' failed. 
>
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1427 (gtk_widget_show):
> assertion `widget != NULL' failed. 
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `ESplash' 
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 78 (gdk_pixbuf_unref): assertion
> `pixbuf != NULL' failed. 
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 78 (gdk_pixbuf_unref): assertion
> `pixbuf != NULL' failed. 
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 78 (gdk_pixbuf_unref): assertion
> `pixbuf != NULL' failed. 
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 78 (gdk_pixbuf_unref): assertion
> `pixbuf != NULL' failed. 
>
> GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -16842989 bytes 
> aborting... 
> Aborted 
>
>
> I am using gdk-pixbuf v0.11.0 and gtk v1.2.10.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
>
> -Jennifer
>
>
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