Re: Evolution still isn't working

[Jens Bech Madsen <jbm oncable dk>]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 18:15, Olivier Lecarme wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:41:38AM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > > To solve this problem:
> > > 
> > > enter the evolution folder.
> > > run 'make clean && make install'
> > > After the evolution tarball has been extracted and as configure starts
> > > type CTRL-c to interrupt the build.
> > > 
> > > run the following commands:
> > >         cd work/main.d/evolution-1.4.4/
> > >         rm wombat/Evolution-Wombat-*.[hc]
> > >         rm libwombat/Evolution-Wombat-*.[hc]
> > >         autoconf
> > >         cd ../../..
> > > 
> > > resume the make with 'make install'
> > > 
> > > This should make evolution work.
> > 
> > Ah, joy!. Rodd, you have my eternal gratitude.
> > 
> > I did a clean build of 0.26.2 over the weekend, no changes, then did:
> > cd evolution; make extract; cd work/main.d/evolution-1.4.4/; 
> > rm wombat/Evolution-Wombat-*.[hc]; rm libwombat/Evolution-Wombat-*.[hc];
> > cd ../../..; make ; make install
> > 
> > (or a close approximation thereof - the syntax may not be exactly correct,
> > but the intent is :))
> > 
> > .. and I was greeted with a working evolution. Which means I can go
> > back to reading my email.
> > 
> > So it is possible to do it without messing around with CVS or
> > what-have-you.
> 
> I did exactly the same, but unfortunately it does not work for me: the
> removed files are missing, and the make still tries to compile
> Evolution-Wombat-common.c

The files should be automatically generated from the .idl file using
orbit-idl-2 before the attempt to compile them. I was messing around
with it last night and whenever I removed the generated files they would
be regenerated as they should.

Maybe try touching the .idl files though the make targets should be out
of date when the target files are missing :-)

A fallback is to run orbit-idl-2 by hand. See the man page.


Cheers,
Jens