Re: [Evolution] Compiling Evo

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > Please note that 2.5.x is unstable development work in progress... ;)
>
> Sure, but I've reported an apparent LDAP bug with 2.4 (and earlier) and
> was asked to try 2.5.1 to see if it was fixed. So far I haven't been
> able to.

OK, just wanted to make this clear. :)

Depending on your distro, there may be RPM packages available with
snapshot versions.


> BTW I don't use the CVS versions. I did try a year or so ago but it was
> just too much pain; 36 modules to compile, and they never seemed all to
> be in synch so I kept getting errors. Probably user error since I'm not
> very familiar with CVS but I really didn't have the time to go into it.
> Note that this was using what is apparently supposed to be the "easy
> way", a script called jhbuild. Maybe the fact that I run KDE and not
> Gnome had something to do with it.

Yeah, jhbuild is /supposed/ to be easy. Running CVS versions can be hard
though, even with a tool that supposedly makes the build easy. ;)

I'd recommend GARNOME [1], if you want to test particular apps/versions
or the entire GNOME Desktop. It does not use CVS versions but released
tarballs (either stable or unstable), so building it does not depend on
the current state of CVS...
GARNOME is designed to not interfere with your existing installs, so
it's safe for testing. Regardless if you build Evo by jhbuild or
GARNOME, the deps sure are the same and automatically build by GARNOME.
Oh, and you can get support by me. ;-)  </ad>

...guenther


[1] http://cipherfunk.org/garnome/


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