Re: [Vala] Problem compiling Evince 2.29.91

[Arkadi Viner <arkashkin gmail com>]

Well, thanks for the advice.
I will do it eventually, but it might take some long time... (I'm a
student..)
I don't understand why there are so few comments in the code?

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Jose Aliste <jose aliste gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> if you are trying to add new functionality to Evince, then I would
> recommend you to use the latest version of it (or even better, the dev
> version from git), since it would be much easier to eventually merge
> your functionality in.  To solve your problem, what I do (in my
> ubuntu) to have a dev version of evince is:
>
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/evince_install/
> make
> make install
>
> Then, when you want to use the dev version of evince you need to
> execute directly from the directory $/home/evince_install/bin. It
> works for me.
>
> Greetings,
>
> José
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Arkadi Viner <arkashkin gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I managed to compile and execute evince 2.28.2 fine and it is not so
> > important to me to to use the latest version.
> > My problem was that my ubuntu 9.10 came with an older version of
> > libevdocument then the latest evince was expecting...
> >
> > I'm am trying to add some functionality to evince,
> > I want to add the ability to bookmark some pages on a document so the
> user
> > could jump between his favorite topics very quickly...I want to add the
> > bookmarks pages thumbnails on the sidebar and some kind of bookmark
> button
> > button on the toolbar. When you add a bookmark you give it a name. All
> > bookmarks will be stored in some file on the home partition and there
> would
> > be an option to backup or import such a file.
> >
> > I hope nobody is already writing such a feature and I hope that my C
> > knowledge will be enough for this...
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 12:52 +0200, Arkadi Viner wrote:
> > > > Ok, now I have managed to compile and install evince using,
> > > >  -> autoget.sh -> make -> make install
> > > >
> > > > My new problem is when I try to run it, it complains that:
> > > > evince: error while loading shared libraries: libevdocument.so.2:
> > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > >
> > >
> > > Arkadi,
> > >
> > > I'm not a expert developer, but I guess you problem is because you
> > > system is because you have two versions of the same library.
> > >
> > > I think it is a good idea to use jhbuild [1] for compiling evince and
> > > have development environment apart from your system.
> > >
> > > You can get some help for this on the gnome-love IRC list
> > >
> > > Just my 2 cents,
> > >
> > >   -- Juanjo Marín
> > >
> > > PS: Nice find people compiling Evince :)
> > >
> > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild
> >
> >
> >
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