Building Evolution

Building against packaged GNOME

Build the relevant modules listed on the Git page and them. If you use a prefix different from where the rest of GNOME is installed (recommended), you will need to update the bonobo-activation configuration file, which will be:

<gnome prefix>/etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml
or /etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml

usually. Between the markers add:

<item>*evolution prefix*/lib/bonobo/servers</item>

You will need to restart the bonobo-activation-server process after this (either by logging out and back in or actually killing the process)

Building with jhbuild

You can get jhbuild information at http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/

• Set your moduleset to gnome-2.20 in ~/.jhbuildrc (there is a sample .jhbuildrc)
• Do 'jhbuild bootstrap' and update to the latest modules - make sure you install pkg-config even if you have the same version that is required. Do not install automake 1.8 since it will cause build failures.
• Do 'jhbuild build evolution'

It should now build 57 modules. If something fails for you, some common problems are listed below:

1. Jhbuild throws a python exception
   Solution: You probably have a distro that maps 'python' to a version less than 2. Just change the installed jhbuild script (usually ~/bin/jhbuild) to use 'python2' instead of 'python'.
   
   
2. Build fails in libxml
   

   ./autogen.sh --prefix /g/home/sig/src/gnome-install --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc
   You should add the contents of`/g/home/sig/src/gnome-install/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to`aclocal.m4'.
   acinclude.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AC_TRY_EVAL2 run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
   

   Solution: Don't install automake 1.8 or do "jhbuild shell" and uninstall automake 1.8 from the jhbuild environment.
3. Build fails in fontconfig
   

   docbook2txt local-fontconfig-user.sgml
   Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1-1.0-17.cat
   Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.12/docbook-utils.dsl#html
   Working on: /home/jpr/src/jhbuild-evo/fontconfig/doc/local-fontconfig-user.sgml
   No way to convert HTML to text found.

   Solution: Install lynx
   
4. Build fails in Xrender

   ./configure: line 18388: syntax error near unexpected token `X,'
   ./configure: line 18388: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X, x11,'
   

   Solution: Install pkg-config during jhbuild bootstap
5. gnome-vfs compilation fails

   In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179,
   from gnome-vfs-ssl.c:41:
   /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory
   In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179,
   from gnome-vfs-ssl.c:41:
   /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:134: parse error before "krb5_enctype"
   /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:136: parse error before '*' token
   /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:137: parse error before '}' token
   /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:149: parse error before "kssl_ctx_setstring"
   

   Solution: Soft link (ln -s) openssl.pc to <jhbuild-prefix>/lib/pkg-config
6. Build fails in libgnomeui

   In libgnomeui
   failed to load "./stock_attach.png": Couldn't recognize the image file
   format for file './stock_attach.png'
   

   Solution: Try rebuild gdk-pixbuf, your loaders file is empty.

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