On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 09:03 +0100, Peter Saffrey wrote: > > Or, you can build the latest version yourself if you want to go that > > route. It's not trivial but it's not too bad. see http://www.go-evolution.org/Compiling_Evolution_from_SVN
> I've had a quick go at this. Evo 2.12 is not available from the main > downloads page: > > http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/download.shtml > > So I used svn to get the latest version. This required a little guess > work since the svn instructions were generic to Gnome and I only wanted > Evolution. see above link also > > The compilation instructions were generic GNU instructions and said > there would be a configure script, which there wasn't. I tried make but > it said no targets. I tried running "./autogen.sh" and it said "You need > to install gnome-common from the GNOME CVS" - this is probably because > I'm trying to build in a user directory so I don't overwrite the old > version. not sure what you mean here -- you can build in any directory for which you have the proper permissions. seems like you're missing some common gnome development packages ( what distro are you using? ). re overwrite the old version -> if you mean you don't want to overwrite the distro supplied version, then pass --prefix=/path/to/non-standard/directory to autogen.sh/configure. Then make install will install the exes and libs in /path/to/non-standard/directory/bin && lib. Then prefix your PATH accordingly ( you may also have to ldconfig the lib path ). > I don't want to spend hours fighting with it, so I guess I'll > just wait for the package version of 2.12 to come out in October. > > I must say, it's these kind of problems that made it a relief to move > from Linux to Windows a year ago. A working PIM seems like a pretty > fundamental part of a modern OS, but Evolution is the only choice under > Linux and it's flaky and unreliable. Even if you've got plenty of > experience building software, missing or inadequate documentation means > it's always a struggle. > > I guess it's too much to expect that Linux software will eventually have > the "it just works" quality, but I keep hoping. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
