Re: My experience of building garnome-2.18.1 on a 'scratch' linux distro.

[Peter <sw98234 hotmail com>]

On Wed, 09 May 2007 09:08:39 +0200, Dan Bolser wrote:

> I was persuaded to post my experience...
> 
> The first problem I had (running make paranoid-install) under desktop
> was that evolution 2.10.1 failed to build... Something todo with iconv
> ... For some reason 2.10.1 refused to find my iconv install (I installed
> the latest iconv under $PREFIX (along with everything else). I fixed
> this problem by rolling back to evolution 2.10.0. This worked fine until
> I hit a problem with krb5... Again evolution didn't want to play nice. I
> found (with help) that evolution-exchange had a (silly?) 'hard coded'
> path to krb5, which I changed to $PREFIX (after installing krb5-1.6.1).
> 

I edit the evolution/-data-server Makefiles to remove the krb option.
###  uncomment CONFIGURE_ARGS to add kerberos 5 support
###  --with-krb5=DIR , where DIR is the root of the install directory for 
kerberos 5
#CONFIGURE_ARGS += --with-krb5=/usr
^
| the above is UNCOMMENTED by default. Probably s/b the other way around. 
FWIW I am using evo 2.11.1 now, but the same option, avoiding krb, 
applies.

-- 
Peter