Hi all. I'm trying to push to get some kind of resolution to the "bogofilter problem" put into Ubuntu 15.04, if possible. I'm using Ubuntu GNOME as my distro for now and the only real issue I have is that Evo's bogofilter plugin is not supported:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1247366 The problem seems fairly well understood, and it's a packaging snafu: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2014-May/msg00010.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2015-January/004618.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/2015-January/002755.html This last message implies that not only can Ubuntu not have run-time dependencies between Evo and bogofilter, there can't even be _build-time_ dependencies between them. Hence, they are currently configuring with --disable-bogofilter. My understanding is that Evo doesn't actually link with any "bogofilter shared library" or anything, it's just running the program. True? If so, it seems like this should be a straightforward problem to solve. Is there any way to get the configure to succeed even if bogofilter is not found during configure? For example, if we explicitly configure with --enable-bogofilter perhaps it could skip the checks and just turn on support? If not would it be possible to trick the configure somehow, so that it didn't fail but still looked for bogofilter in the right place at runtime (without having to install a shim script there first ideally)? It seems to me that ideally this would be a runtime check, not a compile-time check: at runtime the plugin looks to see if the bogofilter program is available and if so the plugin is enabled, if not it's not. But maybe there are complexities that make that hard. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
