Subject: Re: pkgsrc/mail/evolution 1.2.x -> 1.4.x upgrade time
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: Rene Hexel <rh@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/02/2004 16:20:48
Brian,
If you have patches for me, I'm happy to upgrade the package.
Cheers
,
Rene
On 31/12/2003, at 2:27 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> This is one of only a few apps still lingering in in the gtk/glib 1.2 /
> gnome 1.x series branches. Like my suggestions on news/pan and
> www/galeon before it, it's probably safe to upgrade this entry (and
> possibly move the gtk1.x to an alternate name for older platforms).
> Honestly, we're really far behind here (I think 1.5.x development is
> very far along).
>
> Screenshot: http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/netbsd_evolution_1.4.jpg
>
> Notes:
>
> *) This is Evolution 1.4.5. My configure args were simply:
> --prefix=/opt
> --with-db3=/home/db3 --enable-openssl=yes
>
> *) The db3 3.1.17 patches will need to remain to avoid causing the user
> conflicts with multiple installs (perhaps a ximian-db3 package is in
> order)
>
> *) gnome-spell 1.x will need to be imported into pksrc for spell
> checking to function. It's very small and replaces the
> spell-check-while type features you get from libgtkhtml as seen in
> news/pan and chat/gaim
>
> *) I used OpenSSL SSL insted of Mozilla NSS/NSPR's.
>
> *) With debugging symbols, compiled objects amount to 600+ meg on disk.
>
> *) I ran into some stange ld(1) related linking at first run:
>
> % evolution
> (evolution:1810): evolution-mail-WARNING **: Could not load:
> /opt/lib/evolution/1.4/evolution-mail-importers/libevolution-netscape-
> importer.so:
> /opt/lib/evolution/1.4/evolution-mail-importers/libevolution-netscape-
> importer.so: Undefined PLT symbol "mail_importer_make_local_folder"
> (symnum = 228)
>
> [several others here]
>
> ,,,however that symbol is CLEARLY there:
>
> 00052cd8 T mail_importer_make_local_folder
>
> ...in /opt/lib/evolution/1.4/components/libevolution-mail.so to be
> exact
>
> export
> LD_PRELOAD=/opt/lib/evolution/1.4/components/libevolution-mail.so
> fixed the probkem (thanks jmcneil@)
>
> Other than that it rolls and runs just fine (at least on -current /
> i386)
>
> Thanks,
> -lava
>
> ---
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