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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 6 and Evolution 2.8 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 evolution-data-server-devel

gnome-common

You also need the gnome-common package. This can be installed using yum too :

yum install gnome-common

Alternatively, get it from gnome's Subversion repository:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-common/trunk 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

intltool

yum install intltool

Checking out and building Scalix Connector for Evolution

If applicable, go back up one directory to the place from where you checked out the gnome-common module.

Check out the SCALIX branch of the evolution-scalix module (Note that the trunk may contain experimental code) :

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution-scalix/branches/SCALIX evolution-scalix

NOTE: The trunk contains alpha code for support of Fedora 7 with Evolution 2.10 and also Evolution 2.12 support.

Now call autogen.sh, which will create all the necessary makefiles for your system.

cd evolution-scalix ; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr

NOTE: In some cases, you may need to disable warnings: (the following was used to make it compile on a Debian system)

cd evolution-scalix ; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --with-libdb=/usr --disable-more-warnings

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

Note: On SuSE 10.1 I had to modify evolution-scalix/addressbook/create-account.c,   line 77 to include an additional parameter:
Orig: gnome_program_init (PACKAGE, VERSION, LIBGNOME_MODULE, argc, argv, NULL);
New:  gnome_program_init (PACKAGE, VERSION, LIBGNOME_MODULE, argc, argv, NULL, NULL);

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.

Creating your own RPM

If you want to create your own RPM, follow these steps:

First create a tarball from the source code:

make dist

This creates a evolution-scalix-<version>.tar.gz tarball in the current directory.

Now use rpmbuild to create the RPM:

sudo rpmbuild -tb evolution-scalix-<version>.tar.gz

Problem diagnosis

If logging in with Evolution fails. Try running it from the command line. If you see the error message "Couldn't Get password 2" somewhere in the output, this implies that you need to rebuild the evolution-data-server. For consistency, best to use the source package that comes with your distribution but use "--enable-gnome-keyring=no" when rebuilding. This problem affects some SuSE systems.

Related Links

• Scalix Forum
• Gnome SVN instructions