On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 17:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > 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 > > It looks like the error was due to an autoconf I had run earlier while troubleshooting. I wiped it all out, started over again with the newer zlib1g-dev in place and all worked. We are rather ecstatic. Thanks - John
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