Hi there, First of all, I apologise for the negative comments in my previous post - Paul was absolutely right about them being unhelpful. Evolution is an impressive tool, and it is hardly fair to blame it for struggling to have perfect interaction with a proprietary mail service, especially one provided by Microsoft. Last time I was based under Linux I was content with Pine, so I really can't complain!
In any case, the Evolution community has put me to shame by responding to my vitriol with many courteous and helpful responses. As a result, I've had another go at this and made some progress, although I'm still not quite there. First of all, I tried Tobias Mueller's solution of adding the Gutsy repositories, but this required that I upgrade a lot of the underlying libraries, and I'd prefer to maintain a stable system within Feisty as much as I can. Then I tried the Makefile provided by Paul Smith. This is indeed a very clever piece of software and it did most of the installation for me. There were a few problems, however. - I found that it didn't report missing packages from the second line of the "PREREQS" definition; I needed to install bison and flex but it didn't give these names, only that I didn't have all the packages I needed. I'm not sure why this would be... - The libgail-dev package was needed, but not listed. There were more substantial problems installing the evolution-exchange module. First of all, I had a problem where packages for evolution-shell and evolution-plugin were not being found at configure time, because PKG_CONFIG_PATH was set to look in /usr/lib/pkgconfig, which did not contain the evolution packages I had just built. After some bodging with symbolic links I ended up fixing this by changing the definition of PKG_CONFIG_PATH in your Makefile to this: PKG_CONFIG_PATH := /opt/evo-src/evolution/:/opt/evo-src/evolution-data-server/addressbook/libebook/:/opt/evo-src/evolution-data-server/addressbook/libedata-book/:/opt/evo-src/evolution-data-server/calendar/libedata-cal/:/opt/evo-src/evolution-data-server/calendar/libecal/:/opt/evo-src/evolution-data-server/libedataserverui/:/opt/evo-src/libsoup:/opt/evo-src/evolution-data-server/servers/exchange/storage which I realise is very ugly, but everything else seemed worse. I wonder whether these package files can be collected together somewhere, but I guess this problem is part of installing a development copy of Evo alongside an existing, which must be reasonably unusual. I then ran into the problem at link time partly documented in your Makefile with libeshell.so. I fixed this like this: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01879.html Then there were problems at install time, when the Makefilefor Camel in the evolution-exchange directory had not taken on the proper prefix and was attempting to copy the various urls into /usr/lib ($CAMEL_providerdir). I fixed that by manually hacking the Makefile. I then got some missing shared object file problems rather like this one: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/connector/2004-October/000448.html which I solved by adding to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig - again, I can't believe this is the best method for this. After all this, I'm afraid it still doesn't run. Using your script, it starts up but then gives a dialog with this error message: "Internal error, unknown error 'shell:noshell' requested" with these messages in the log: evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server... (evolution:6351): e-utils-WARNING **: No parent set, or default parent available for error dialog Any further ideas? Thanks again for your help so far, Peter _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
