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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2000-06-15 Dan Winship <danw@helixcode.com> + + * README: bye bye goad + 2000-06-14 Damon Chaplin <damon@helixcode.com> * README (http): added command to co ORBit. @@ -37,50 +37,36 @@ to make it any easier until then. General Principles ------------------ -There are two things you have to decide earlier on: whether or not to -install Evolution in the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME -install, and whether to use GOAD or OAF. +First you have to decide whether you want to install Evolution (and +its dependencies) into the same prefix as the rest of your GNOME +install, or into a new prefix. Installing everything into the same +prefix as the rest of your GNOME install will make it much easier to +build and run programs, but may make it harder to uninstall later. - - Installing everything into the same prefix as the rest of your - GNOME install will it much easier to run programs, but may make it - harder to uninstall later. - - If you want to install into the same prefix as the rest of GNOME, - type: +If you want to install into the same prefix as the rest of GNOME, +type: gnome-config --prefix gnome-config --sysconfdir - and remember the answers, and pass them to "configure" and - "autogen" when building the other packages you need. Eg: +and remember the answers, and pass them to "configure" and "autogen" +when building the other packages you need. Eg: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc - If you do not do this, you will need to set GNOME_PATH to include - the prefix you install into. Eg: +If you do not do this, you will need to set the GNOME_PATH environment +variable (and ACLOCAL_FLAGS as well if building from CVS) to include +the prefix you install into. Eg: export GNOME_PATH=/usr/local + export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal" - (You need to do this both during compiling AND when you run - evolution.) - - Remember if you're installing into an odd prefix such as /evolution - that you also need to make sure to put ${prefix}/bin in your PATH. - - - - GOAD is the "old" (GNOME 1.x series) object activation system. OAF - is the new (unreleased, GNOME 2.x series) system. - - As of bonobo 0.14, OAF is the default activation system for Bonobo. - If you want to use OAF, you will need to install the oaf package - before building Bonobo. If you want to save a little time and stick - with GOAD, you should pass the flag "--enable-oaf=no" to bonobo's - configure script. - - Note that Nautilus requires OAF, so if you have built or are - planning to build Nautilus as well, you should use OAF. - +(Assuming your shell is bash, and you installed into /usr/local.) You +need to set GNOME_PATH both during compiling AND when you run +evolution. Remember also that if you're installing into an odd prefix +such as /evolution, that you also need to make sure to put +${prefix}/bin in your PATH. Dependencies @@ -103,10 +89,9 @@ ftp.gnome.org. The (*)ed packages are available in Helix GNOME. - ORBit - 0.5.1 (*) or later from the orbit-stable-0-5 branch in CVS. (i.e. do 'cvs co -r orbit-stable-0-5 ORBit') - - oaf - 0.3, assuming that you're building with OAF rather than GOAD - (see above). Note that if you build the current CVS version of OAF - rather than the 0.3 release, you will need a newer version of ORBit - than 0.5.1. + - oaf - 0.3 or later. Note that if you build the current CVS version + of OAF rather than the 0.3 release, you will need a newer version + of ORBit than 0.5.1 (see above). - bonobo - Evolution always tracks the latest CVS versions of bonobo. Released versions will virtually always be too old (although as of @@ -117,11 +102,13 @@ ftp.gnome.org. The (*)ed packages are available in Helix GNOME. *** properly. - gnome-vfs (released versions are OK currently, but CVS versions are - better. Note that gnome-vfs from CVS requires OAF.) + better.) - libunicode - 0.4 or later, available from http://www.pango.org/download.shtml + - gconf - from CVS (there are currently no released versions) + - gtkhtml - 0.4 or later - libglade (*) |