(Let me know if you'd prefer to take this conversation off-list)
Sorry, it was foolish of me to use the old Makefile when you'd sent an update.
The new one you sent compiled everything without errors.
However, I am still without a working Evo. It starts up fine, but I get an
interface with only the Send/Receive button and many of the sub-menus are
empty. The preferences dialog is also empty. I did get a lot of warnings like
this:
"WARNING: failed to install schema
`/schemas/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/webcal/need-terminal' locale `uk': Unable
to store a value at key
'/schemas/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/webcal/need-terminal', as the
configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of
this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain
any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd
processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't
work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't
properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you
have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched),
logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you
have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you
attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its
default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put
"ORBIIOPIPv4=1" in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details
on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home
directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in
individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf"
during the final stages; I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
The other problem is to do with the Makefile itself. The "make clean" entry:
clean:
$(RMDIR) $(STAMPDIR) $(BLDROOT)/* $(PREFIX)
has an undefined variable "$(BLDROOT)", which means that the make clean entry
does this:
rm -rf .stamp /*
That will teach me to run "make clean" without looking at what it does. On the
bright side, I was impressed at how easy Gnome made it to rebuild all my
configuration options :)
Is this Makefile available online? I actually think it's a very useful tool for
people wanting to run a development version of Evo. I would be happy to
contribute to a page describing its use, if that would be helpful. After we've
ironed out the bugs, of course.
Peter
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