Re: Q: Performance of gnome when mounted via NFS

[Stef van der Made <svdmade planet nl>]

Dear Keith,

I don't know about performance but I don know a way on how to compile 
evolution without compiling the whole garnome package. The is actualy 
quite easy. What you need to-do is enter the desktop/evolution folder 
and doing a make install. This will build evolution and all it's 
required components which are quite a few if I look at the dependency 
list in Makesum. You do need to adapt the gar.conf.mk file first to make 
sure that compiler settings and locations where the software is built 
are set correctly.

I hope this helps your quest to user evolution.

Cheers,

Stef

Keith Hanlan wrote:

> If I were to build garnome and install it on an NFS mount, would the
> resulting performance suffer greatly? In this environment, the NFS
> servers and network are top-end industrial - but they're not going to be
> as good as local filesystem access.
>
> We're using RHEL4 which is distributing Evolution 2.0.2 and I want to
> provide an updated version (2.6.1) without having to update the 100+
> desktops themselves.
>
> Supplemental: is there an easy way to determine the minimal set of
> packages necessary to build evolution 2.6.1 given my current
> environment? I'm not interested in updating Gnome per se - just the
> evolution application.
>
> Thank you,
> Keith Hanlan
> Ottawa
>