Good question :-)

(I'm not an Evo developer; I just happen to have seen this situation
before and knew what it was.)

poc

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 11:14 -0400, Polcari, Joe wrote:
> 
> Ok - why is Evolution using MS type error messages????
> Why can't the error message say:
> 
> "Your /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml doesn't
> match what Evo expects.
> Are you sure you edited the XML file as per the instructions in the
> Evo README?"
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:35 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 13:22 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:42 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > > > > >         Your system configuration does not match your Evolution
> > > > > >         configuration.
> > > 
> > > This means that your /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml
> > > doesn't match what Evo expects. Are you sure you edited the XML file as
> > > per the instructions in the Evo README?
> > > 
> > > poc
> > > 
> > 
> > Indeed that was the issue.  I should have paid more attention to the
> > README.  Just too used to untar, configure, make, make install...
> > I will note that the first time I tried to build several days ago that I
> > used the default location (/usr) for UBUNUTU with the same startup
> > failure and it took me a bit of time to get 2.6.3 back, which is why I
> > configured for /opt/evolution this time,,, so that I would not blow away
> > my working 2.6 until i knew that the new 2.8 build would work( that
> > build attempt was from CVS, rather than from the already bzipped
> > tarballs).
> > 
> > Thanks to all for the responses, esp Patrick -- I'll now do a
> > reconfigure to --prefix=/usr .... and make and install everything
> > properly.
> > 
> > reid
> > 
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