Re: [Evolution] Building evolution plugins separately (WAS: filter && forwarding incoming mail)

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.01.2011, 10:01 +0800 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 14:17 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:30 -0500, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > > do you have build capability -- the plugin itself is not very big
> > I've built Evo in the past, though doing it in Fedora is much less
> > automated than for Ubuntu (thanks to Paul's Makefile). However I prefer
> > to use only yum repos to keep my system up to date where possible, and
> > this plugin is not a showstopper for me. I only mentioned it because
> > Matthias brought it up.
> >
> > poc
> On a related note: Previously I asked about the external-editor plugin and was simply told it was part of 
> 'experimental plugins', which google revealed simply to be a Debian/Ubuntu package. Prompted by this 
> conversation, I continued searching I found out that all these experimental plugins are simply part of the 
> evolution source itself.
>
> I'm currently typing in vim using external editor (Evo 2.32.1), having modified my distro's evolution 
> package to compile that as well.
>
> So a quick question, would it be possible to compile the experimental plugins without having to ./configure 
> -> make evolution itself? This would allow me to package them separately instead of having to package an 
> entire evolution-with-plugins package which basically duplicates my distro's package.
>
>
> _______________________________________________

Just go to the ../obj/evolution/plugins/external-editor directory and do
make install. The configure step needs to be done from on top as far as
I know. Then you can package the installed plugin in
<install_base>/lib/evolution/2.28/plugins - as far as I know.

-- 
thomas