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Building Scalix Connector for Evolution from Source
This how-to describes how to build the Scalix Connector for Evolution from source. It assumes that you have working knowledge of Linux and the build tools. These instructions are for Fedora Core 5 and Evolution 2.6 but should apply with minor modifications to other distributions as well.
Prerequisites
Update your Fedora installation
If you did a Fedora install from CD it is a good idea to fully update your installation. The easiest way to do this is using yum:
yum update
This can take a while depending on how current your install was.
Evolution Development Packages
You need the evolution-devel and evolution-data-server-devel packages. Install those using yum:
yum install evolution-devel yum install evolution-data-server-devel
gnome-common
Check out the gnome-common module from CVS and build it.
First, define the CVSROOT:
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome
Next, login to the repository (just hit return at the password prompt):
cvs login
Now, check out the gnome-common module:
cvs co gnome-common
Change to the gnome-common directory and call the autogen script:
cd gnome-common; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
After that install the macros:
sudo make install
Checking out and building Scalix Connector for Evolution
Go back up one directory to the place from where you checked out the gnome-common module.
Check out the evolution-scalix module:
cvs co evolution-scalix
Now call autogen.sh, which will create all the necessary makefiles for your system.
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
IMPORTANT: the prefix value must be the same as the one you provided when calling autogen for gnome-common.
If everything goes well you will see a summary, listing install paths and other information. When you see that summary, everything is well and you can continue with building the connector:
make
Once make finishes all that is left is installing the connector:
sudo make install
You now have the connector installed. Start Evolution and create a new account profile. Scalix should appear in the list of account types.
