(Let me know if you'd prefer to take this conversation off-list)
Sorry, it was foolish of me to use the old Makefile when you'd sent an update. The new one you sent compiled everything without errors.
However, I am still without a working Evo. It starts up fine, but I get an interface with only the Send/Receive button and many of the sub-menus are empty. The preferences dialog is also empty. I did get a lot of warnings like this:
"WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/webcal/need-terminal' locale `uk': Unable to store a value at key '/schemas/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/webcal/need-terminal', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf"
during the final stages; I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
The other problem is to do with the Makefile itself. The "make clean" entry:
clean:
$(RMDIR) $(STAMPDIR) $(BLDROOT)/* $(PREFIX)
has an undefined variable "$(BLDROOT)", which means that the make clean entry does this:
rm -rf .stamp /*
That will teach me to run "make clean" without looking at what it does. On the bright side, I was impressed at how easy Gnome made it to rebuild all my configuration options :)
Is this Makefile available online? I actually think it's a very useful tool for people wanting to run a development version of Evo. I would be happy to contribute to a page describing its use, if that would be helpful. After we've ironed out the bugs, of course.
Peter