Re: [Evolution] Compiling Evo

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 14:31 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I downloaded Garnome to take a look, but haven't tried it yet since I
> > figured out that my problem with 2.5.1 was a missing hal-devel RPM.
>
> GARNOME ships with almost all necessary bootstrap. In particular, the
> proper hal version is built by GARNOME automagically.
>
>
> > I'll
> > keep it in mind for future reference, though it's not clear from the
> > docs whether you can just compile the parts you want or have to install
> > (or at least compile) an entire Gnome desktop, which I *don't* want.
>
> You can build Evo only -- kind of. All deps to keep it sane will be
> built, you do not need to build the entire Desktop.
>
> $ make -C desktop/evolution paranoid-install

OK, I'll try that just for the fun of it :-)

poc