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

[Harry Lu <Harry Lu Sun COM>]

Per Harish's approval on IRC, committed into gnome-2-12 branch, too.
Thanks!
      Harry

Harry Lu wrote:

> Committed into HEAD.  Can I commit it into gnome-2-12 branch, too?
> Thanks!
>    Harry
>
> Harish Krishnaswamy wrote:
>
> > 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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