Re: Evolution2.02 Gnome Requirements

You shouldn't need 2.8 to build Evo 2.0.  The 2.2 that comes with XD2
should suffice, modulo a couple modules mentioned in the README in the
root of the Evo tarball.

What exactly is the configure script complaining about? It may be easier
to fix that than to install 2.8.

-Mark Gordon

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 07:07 -0700, Glen Baker wrote:
> Yeah, I know this is a gnome question, but I'm hoping that somebody here
> will be able to steer me in the correct direction.
> 
> I'm trying to compile 2.02 (currently running 1.4.6 and it's time to
> upgrade). My machine is running RH9 with XD2 and has been kept as up to
> date as possible with red-carpet.
> 
> I can compile a lot of 2.02 (libsoup, gal, gtkhtml, etc), but once I get
> to evolution itself it gets mad at my gnome installation.
> 
> So I decided to try to install gnome 2.8 and am finding it a daunting
> process. The gnome site says "kids, don't try this at home, get it from
> your provider" (yeah, like that's going to happen for RH9). The
> installations instructions say:
> 
>   "Building from source is even more difficult than normal this time,
>    because GNOME 2.8 requires your existing applications to register
>    themselves in the new cross-desktop MIME-type system." 
> 
> I have no idea how that's going to impact the rest of my system (heck, I
> don't even know precisely what it means!).
> 
> So...here's the question: has anybody got a slick way to install gnome
> 2.8 on a RH9 box? I can't find rpms anywhere, red-carpet is no help,
> <whine> <snivel> ...oh, sorry 'bout that.
> 
> Do I need to just ditch RH9? I can't make myself go to fedora so I guess
> Debian or SUSE are my other choices (and I really don't want to do a
> whole clean install just to upgrade evolution...).
> 
> Any advice? Any good stock tips? Anybody read this far?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> .glen
> 
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