Re: debuild of evolution-data-server fails
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:57 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-05-07 22:17 +0200, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
> > Hello, all. We are trying to rebuild the evolution-data-server package
> > after patching it to hopefully end our current email nightmare. The
> > base system is Lenny but we are using evolution from squeeze. When I
> > try to debuild, I am getting the following errors:
> >
> > checking for GNOME_PLATFORM... configure: error: Package requirements
> > (glib-2.0 >= 2.16.1
> > gtk+-2.0 >= 2.14.0
>
> I think this is the problem, since lenny has only gtk+-2.0 2.12.12. The
> build dependencies in debian/control might not be correct. Note that
> lenny-backports has a newer version, though.
>
> > ORBit-2.0 >= 2.9.8
> > libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.20.3
> > gconf-2.0 >= 2.0.0
> > libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0
> > libxml-2.0 >= 2.0.0
> > libsoup-2.4 >= 2.3.0) were not met:
> >
> > Package zlib was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `zlib.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > Package 'zlib', required by 'GnuTLS', not found
> >
> > zlib is installed.
>
> True, but the zlib1g-dev package in lenny does not ship a zlib.pc file;
> the version in squeeze does.
>
> > I did not check all the listed packages but the ones
> > I checked were installed with the latest versions. My command sequence
> > was:
> >
> > apt-get -t testing source evolution-data-server (as non-root)
> > apt-get -t testing build-dep evolution-data-server (as root)
>
> This might not do what you want. When you fetch the build dependencies
> from testing, the built packages will likely also depend on libraries
> not present in stable. But it appears to be impossible to build
> squeeze's evolution-data-server in lenny anyway (see above).
>
> > patched evolution-data-server
> > edited debian/changelog and debian/rules (disabled gnome-key-ring - also
> > tried it with this enabled as per the default)
> > debuild -uc -us
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? We are rather desperate to get this running.
>
> There are various possibilities, all not very appealing:
>
> - Install the lenny backport of gtk+-2.0 and see what's necessary to get
> the zlib.pc file into the libz1g-dev package. Resolve further build
> problems by installing packages from lenny-backports or creating your
> own backports. You may want to hire somebody to do the work.
>
> - Upgrade to squeeze, deal with the ensuing breakage and hope that it
> will freeze in a few months.
>
> - use Ubuntu 10.04 or whatever current distribution has the new
> evolution-data-server and deal with whatever bugs these distributions
> have.
>
> I would go for the first option, but note that you should set
> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 in the environment if you upgrade gtk+-2.0 to
> version 2.18, otherwise several applications might break¹.
>
> Sven
>
>
> ¹ http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax/2009/10/what-gdk-native.html
>
>
The upgrade to the squeeze zlib did the trick but now I've hit what I
think is a linker problem:
libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed
I ran libtoolize and aclocal but that didn't seem to help. Off to
Google to find out what this is. Thanks - John
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