Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 12:04 -0500 schrieb George Reeke: > Dear Tom, > Thanks for your suggestion. > In the past, when I have tried to build the latest evolution in > the context of a system tied to even the latest RedHat version > (due to our University maintenance agreement), I find there are > numerous library incompatibilities and I have not been successful. > I suppose I need to set up a separate directory under /usr/lib > and place all the required newer libraries there and link > evolution against those. Is that what you do? Does the Makefile > you indicated take care of all that automatically? Even after > all that, I would not be surprised to find further conflicts > with parts of the RedHat versions of other gnome components. > Thanks, > George Reeke ... Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 12:36 -0430 wrote Patrick O'Callaghan: > Unfortunately Paul's Makefile only works for Ubuntu and Debian. >
On http://mad-scientist.us/evolution.html, he says: > Currently the makefile has builtin knowledge of Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty > Fawn), Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), and Debian Etch. The > distro-specific parts are the ones that check the system for build > prerequisites; if you have a different distro you can set the distro > to empty (so it doesn't do any prerequisite check) and cross your > fingers! If you would like to help get this working on other > distributions, such as RPM-based systems, I'm interested. You could just give it a try. Maybe, build the needed gnome libraries from source and install it into /opt/evo. > > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > [local...@localhost ~]$ evolution --version > > > > GNOME evolution 2.24.4 > > > > Why don't you check out the bleeding edge version. Just grab the Makefile > > at http://mad-scientist.us/Makefile > > and do a 'make all'. It will check out the latest subversion trunk version, > > configure, build and install it to /opt/evo. > > I do that for several months now and it works very well. > > > > thomas > > > > P.S.: ... and don't forget to report all those little bugs to > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org. > > > > _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
