Re: [Evolution] Best Distribution to self compile master?

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 19.02.2014, 11:52 +0400 schrieb Emre Erenoglu:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 19:02 +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
>         > Is there a distribution that carries the latest versions of
>         > dependencies of Evo 3.12 (incl webkit), so that I can
>         self-compile it
>         > without jhbuild? I shall be forced to replace only few
>         system packages
>         > to prevent instability of the base system.
>         
>         
>         I do most of my Evolution development on Debian Stable,
>         cherry-picking
>         newer libraries as needed from Debian Testing, and
>         occasionally build
>         (optional) bleeding-edge dependencies straight from git.
>         
>         I don't use jhbuild, I install built source code to a prefix
>         under my
>         home directory so as not to affect system stability, and I run
>         the EDS
>         D-Bus services manually from that install prefix.
>
>
> Thanks Matthew for your time, hope you would have little more time to
> respond to the below as well :)
>
>
> I tried this in Ubuntu but it started complaining about tons of
> dependencies to replace in the system, starting from Gnome3 related
> packages, webkit, fontconfig, glib, gnutls, gobject-introspection,
> gstreamer, gtk+, gvfs, libnotify, libsoup, librest, pango, polkit,
> etc.  etc.  Maybe these are not all needed...

Have you tried the command to install build dependencies for evolution:
apt-get build-dep evolution
That usually gets the basic libraries installed. The others you might
need to build manually into your $PREFIX build directory structure.
Also, you might consider building in a different directory than the 
source directories like:
$PREFIX/local/build
$PREFIX/local/src



> However, your message gave me new energy to try again :)  Maybe I can
> start on a beta Ubuntu 14.04 and try over there.
>
>
> So do I understand right that you configure stuff with;
> configure --prefix=$HOME/local  (for example), and then add built
> library paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH before launching evo? 
> Also, how do you launch the "ESD D-Bus services" manually?
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Br,
> Emre
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