Re: [Evolution] [Evolution-hackers] problems building local version of Evolution

[Thomas Dean <dean cs queensu ca>]

What am I looking for. To execute:

cd /home/benkam/evolution/bin
./evolution-2.6

Which environment variable should I be setting?

Thanks...

Tom.

On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:45 -0400, Thomas Dean wrote:
> > I am a security researcher at Queen's University in Canada.
> > We are working on a model based intelligent fuzzer for text
> > based protocols and data files. One of the file formats
> > we were looking at was iCalendar file format. We are trying
> > to build an earlier version of Evolution (2.6.0) that had several
> > bugs. However wee have run into a few problems.
> >
> > We installed ubuntu 6.06 on a machine (Evolution 2.6.1) and
> > downloaded Evolution client 2.6.0 source code. The idea was
> > to compile only the 2.6.0 client (with the bug) and use
> > the rest of the installed system.
> >
> > As confiuration:
> > 1) we set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to "/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/home/benkam/
> > evolution/lib/pkgconfig"
> >
> > 2) we added /home/benkam/evolution/lib/bonobo/servers to /etc/bonobo-
> > activation
> >
> > 3) used ./configure --prefix=/home/benkam/evolution
> >
> > make followed by make install seems to produce a complete working
> > install of the
> > Evolution 2.6.0 client in the /home/benkam/evolution directory.  The
> > about reports
> > 2.6.0.  However the bugs did not seem to be reproducable. We inserted
> > some
> > tracing calls into several key files that are compiled into the
> > evolution libraries.
> > After rebuilding and reinstalling, the trace output did not appear,
> > leading us
> > to believe that the 2.6.1 libraries are being called from the  
> > globally
> > installed
> > application.
> >
> > Could anyone give any pointers to what we we did wrong, and how we  
> > can
> > get
> > a local 2.6.0 copy running?
> >
> > Many thanks...
> >
> > Tom.
> >
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> How are you starting your evo instance?
> Any calls to invoke evo need to be done with the calling environment  
> set
> such that your --prefix location is utilized first.