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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 evolution-data-server-devel
gnome-common
Gnome.org has changed to SVN, so type:
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
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.
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
