I've found that to get a lot of the ximian projects build (and for some 
reason the lastest version of Abi Word) I have to first pull the lastest 
snapshot of Evolution. The ximain teams seems to have created a lot of 
libs for evolution which they use in other projects and I haven't been 
able to find them on rpmfind.net yet.

Carl P.

Nathan England wrote:

>True, I just always associate gnome with ximian.. My ignorance I guess...
>I just might have to try that instead..  Though I do so like the Gnome that
>comes with Slackware 8.  Maybe I'll just update.
>
>Still have a problem with evolution building though.  Balsa did the same
>thing now, I did manage to get that built.  But it says a library can not be
>found..  No such file errors.. But it doesn't say what file..  Oh well.
>More investigating.. I'd really like to use Evolution. It is slick.
>
>nathan
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@SEQUOIA.NET>
>To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
>Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:24 AM
>Subject: Re: Balsa
>
>
>>Why would you use ximians source for gnome.  Their whole purpose in life
>>seems to be to make an easily installable gnome, with not much more beyond
>>that.  If I was a build from souyce type of guy, I would just go to the
>>origional souce and get gnome stright from gnome.  It tends to be quite a
>>bit more up to date than ximian as well.
>>
>>Brian
>>
>>>I built evolution from source, got all the libraries and everything.
>>>Afterwards, I typed in evolution and nothing happened...  I did an
>>>
>ldconfig,
>
>>>tried again and it said it couldn't find some library...  I rebooted.
>>>
>Tried
>
>>>again and it just said there was a file not found..  But didn't say what
>>>file..
>>>I don't like evolution..  I don't care much for ximian.. They are great
>>>
>if
>
>>>you use a debian or rpm system.. but if you do anything from source they
>>>
>are
>
>>>crap..  I had to get the source from deep within the debian folders...
>>>
>grr.
>
>>>That's not nice..IMO.  Maybe I'll try again.  I'm loosing my patience
>>>
>with
>
>>>balsa.
>>>
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