Re: [evolution-patches] evolution may fail to start up evolution data server automatically

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

Looks fine to commit.

Thanks,
harish

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 14:11 +0800, Shiying Irene Huang wrote:
> hi, Harish
> 
>    We spotted a problem in evolution 2.2 that evolution data server 
> failed to start up by itself when evolution is launched under solaris.
> 
>    The cause is on solaris, we speficy libexecdir = libdir  when 
> configuring, so there is no /usr/libexec directory under solaris. This 
> lead to the fact that evolution-data-server-1.2 is not installed as 
> expected in /usr/libexec on linux. A copy of this executable file is put 
> into /usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2 instead since the directory has 
> already been there. As a result, the actual installation path for  the 
> executable evolution -data-server-1.2 is 
> /usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/evolution-data-server.
> 
>    However, in 
> /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Evolution_DataServer-1.2.server, the 
> location for the executable evolution-data-server-1.2 is incorrect, 
> which is /usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2.
> 
>    For Evolution 2.4, we looked in to evolution-data-server-1.4 
> installation and found that in the 1.4 version, two different VERSIONs 
> are defined, a BASE_VERSION=1.4 and a API_VERSION=1.2. In this way, the 
> name of the executable evolution-data-server-1.4 is different from the 
> directory evolution-data-server-1.2 for installing camelprovider and 
> extensions. However, when API_VERSION and BASE_VERSION bear the same 
> value (possibly in the future) , evolution data server will fail to 
> start up by itself again.
> 
>    On the above observation, I created a patch for settling the problem 
> as decribed. The patch is sent as attachment to this file. Please reviews.
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