Re: [Evolution] Evolution 2.12.0, Evolution-Data-Server1.12.0, GtkHTML 3.16.0, Evolution Exchange 2.12.0 and Evolution-sharp-0.14.0released

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

Enabling the development repo will probably pull in a huge amount of
stuff you don't really want (unless you're already using it).

I'm using 2.12 on Fedora 7 with just the stable repos. This is what I do
to recompile Evo from source. (I assume we're installing in a separate
tree (/opt/evolution). This enables us to use "yum install" when the
official repos catch up.)

1) For each of the {gtkhtl. e-d-s, evo} tarballs, download and unpack
into separate directories.

2) In the Shell do: export 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/evolution/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig

3) Kill your current instance of Evo: evolution --force-shutdown

4) Configure each component as follows (in its own directory of course):

evolution-data-server 1.1.1 or later:
        ./configure --prefix=/opt/evolution --enable-nss --with-openldap 
--with-nspr-include=/usr/include/nspr4
        make install

gtkhtml 3.5.0 or later:
        ./configure --prefix=/opt/evolution
        make install

evolution:
        ./configure --prefix=/opt/evolution --enable-nss --with-openldap 
--with-nspr-include=/usr/include/nspr4 --enable-pilot-conduits=yes 
        make install

You might want to play with the configure options. The complete set is
available by typing "./configure --help" in each directory. This is a
minimal set of options I've found to work (note that if you use Exchange
you'll need to enable some others as well). Also note that you do *not*
need to enable the IMAP options as the default configuration already has
IMAP. The options refer to alternative implementations which seem to be
broken.

You might get errors related to scrollkeeper because the installation
process tries to put new documentation indices there and as a normal
user you don't have access. If you don't want to install as root, a
kludge is to (temporarily) enable write permissions on the appropriate
directory, or just ignore the problem -- it doesn't seem to affect Evo's
operation as such).

5) If this is your first time, edit the XML file
at /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml according to the
instructions in evolution-2.12.0/README. You only need to do this once.
You also should restart bonobo-activation-server (the easiest way is to
log out and in again).

6) Finally, type /opt/evolution/bin/evolution and try it out.

Luck :-)

poc

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:42 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:14 +0530, Shrikant Navelkar wrote:
> > I am using Fedora 7. 
> >
> > May be I should try and build myself. I would appreciate if you can
> > point me to further instructions. 
>
> Shrikant,
>
> I just packaged Evolution 2.12 for Fedora 8.  You should be able to
> obtain them from Fedora's development repo:
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/
>
> Fedora 7 will remain at Evolution 2.10.
>
> Matthew Barnes
>
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