Build instructions for evolution-brutus on edgy

[Samuel Cormier-Iijima]

Hi,

I don't really use evolution, but this seems it would be quite useful
to many people: have you posted it on UbuntuForums or on the Wiki?

Samuel

On 10/18/06, Jules Colding <colding at omesc.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> evolution-brutus is an alternative Evolution Exchange connector. It can
> be used in situations where evolution-exchange is unsuitable.
>
> Anyway, this might or might not be of interest, but I struggled to get
> evolution-brutus to build on edgy. The situation involved a lot of
> blood, sweat and tears so I'm making my observations available to anyone
> who might want to duplicate my efforts.
>
>
> Two bugs are hindering evolution-brutus to build out-of-the-box on
> Ubuntu edgy:
>
>
> 1) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66556
>
>    This bug will disable all non-local IPv4 communication in ORBit2. It
> has been fixed in Gnome CVS but not in ORBit2 as distributed with edgy.
>
> 2) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66560
>
>    This bug is the build-blocker for evolution-brutus in edgy. Fixing
> this bug will make e-b build on an updated Ubuntu edgy, but will not fix
> the IPv4 bug above.
>
>
> The steps below will enable you to build evolution-brutus 1.1.6 on
> Ubuntu edgy as a local user. You must be prepared to install additional
> build dependencies using synaptic to get everything building correctly.
>
> A) Get the libIDL and ORBit2 sources. Getting via apt-get will not
> resolve #66556 above. You must get the ORBit2 source from Gnome CVS to
> to get a functioning ORBit2. Once the edgy repositories has fixed #66556
> you can do like this:
>
>     1) apt-get source libIDL-dev
>     2) apt-get source liborbit2-dev
>     3) gunzip ./*gz
>     4) tar xf ./libidl_0.8.6.orig.tar
>     5) tar xf ./orbit2_2.14.3.orig.tar
>
> B) Update your environment before building anything:
>
>     1) Adjust for your own box (s/colding/<your homedir>/g) and add this
> to your ~/.bashrc:
>
>     PATH=$HOME/opt/bin:$PATH
>     export PATH
>
>     LIBDIR="/home/colding/opt/lib"
>     export LIBDIR
>
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBDIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
>     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>     LD_RUN_PATH="$LIBDIR:$LD_RUN_PATH"
>     export LD_RUN_PATH
>
> C) Log out and back in to get your environment up to date.
>
> D) Go to the lidIDL source directory and apply the patch:
>     1) cd libidl-0.8.6
>     2) patch -p1 <../libidl_0.8.6-1ubuntu1.diff
>
> E) Build and install libIDL:
>     1) ./configure --prefix=/home/colding/opt/
>     2) make
>     3) make install
>
> F) Go to the ORBit2 source directory and apply the patch:
>     1) cd ORBit2-2.14.3
>     2) patch -p1 <../orbit2_2.14.3-0ubuntu0.diff
>
> G) Build and install ORBit2:
>     1) ./configure --prefix=/home/colding/opt/
>     2) make
>     3) make install
>
> H) Get the e-b source from:
> http://www.omesc.com/content/downloads/dist/SOURCES/evolution-brutus-1.1.6.tar.gz
>
>    and unpack it somewhere. You can not use an earlier download of
> 1.1.6, you must get a new one.
>
> I) Go to the e-b source directory:
>     1) cd evolution-brutus-1.1.6
>     2) ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
>     3) make
>     4) (as root) make install
>     5) Now do "evolution --force-shutdown"
>
>
> Hopefully you will now be able to create a Brutus account in Evolution.
>
> Enjoy,
>   jules
>
>
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