Re: Compiling from CVS-HEAD on Ubuntu Intrepid

Bob Vincent writes:

> Re-posting from Thunderbird I didn't see my original post on the mailing 
> list.
> 
> Getting this package to compile and run required some non-obvious (to 
> me) steps.
> 
> 1. Make sure that sgml stylesheets exist in the exact paths expected by
> courier sources:
> 
> ln -s /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh 
> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets

Thanks -- I tweaked the Makefile so that it should find the stylesheet 
directory automatically, as long as the default XML catalog is set 
accordingly.

> 
> 2. Copy the missing curses_config.h.in from a tarball download:
> 
> cp cone-0.77/curses/curses_config.h.in cone/curses/

Fixed this too -- curses_config.h.in should now get created automatically by 
running autobloat.

> 3. Make sure CHARSET is set to either us-ascii (for non-unicode build) or
> utf-8 (for unicode build):
> 
> export CHARSET=utf-8

Not sure why this makes a difference. The top level Makefile should 
automatically add --enable-unicode unconditionally, which enables all the 
Unicode stuff.

> I'm sure there is a debian-standard way to set the CHARSET,
> but I haven't found it yet.
> 
> 4. My SMTP server uses port 587 rather than port 25, so in my Setup I
> set my Outgoing SMTP Server to "mail.pillars.net:587" rather than just
> "mail.pillars.net".
> 
> 5. After compiling with "--prefix=/usr" I found that when trying to launch
> an external browser, Cone was literally trying to open the path
> "${prefix}/share/cone/http.handler".  After compiling with all possible

This was due to a change introduced in more recent versions of autoconf, 
that you rebuilt against.

I tweaked the configure script, so that it will now work correctly with your 
autoconf.

> configuration paths set (--prefix, --bindir, --sbindir, --libexecdir, etc),
> cone correctly tried to launch /usr/share/cone/http.handler but the default
> script didn't work for my installation.  Fortunately, Debian/Ubuntu 
> provides
> /usr/bin/sensible-browser for just such a situation, so I moved the default
> script out of the way and substituted a symlink to the Debian script.
> 
> mv /usr/share/cone/http.handler /usr/share/cone/http.handler.distrib
> mv /usr/share/cone/https.handler /usr/share/cone/https.handler.distrib
> ln -s /usr/bin/sensible-browser /usr/share/cone/http.handler
> ln -s /usr/bin/sensible-browser /usr/share/cone/https.handler

That shouldn't be necessary. Just add the path to sensible-browser to the 
for loop, in the default http.handler script.

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