I just want to share my experience of the installation of SyncEvolution on RHEL 5.3: == Prerequisites == Some packages are necessary for compilation from source. yum search libtool glib2-devel intltool boost-devel sqlite-devel The boost libraries provided by RedHat are too old, therefore a new package is compiled from source. yum install bzip2-devel python-devel libicu-devel wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/10/SRP... rpmbuild --rebuild boost-1.34.1-18.fc10.src.rpm rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/boost-1.34.1-18.x86_64.rpm /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/boost-devel-1.34.1-18.x86_64.rpm == Preparation of Makefile.am == Because of an old version of automake, the docdir has to be set in Makefile-gen.am and src/Makefile-gen.am diff --git a/Makefile-gen.am b/Makefile-gen.am index f304225..5584175 100644 --- a/Makefile-gen.am +++ b/Makefile-gen.am @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +docdir = ${datadir}/doc/${PACKAGE} ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 -I m4-repo diff --git a/src/Makefile-gen.am b/src/Makefile-gen.am index 15d9e33..b6eea3f 100644 --- a/src/Makefile-gen.am +++ b/src/Makefile-gen.am @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +docdir = ${datadir}/doc/${PACKAGE} BACKENDS = @BACKENDS@ service_in_files = org.syncevolution.service.in == Compilation == Finally, SyncEvolution can be built and installed. ./autogen.sh mkdir -p src/synthesis-workdir/m4 ./configure -with-synthesis-src=http://git.moblin.org/libsynthesis.git --disable-ebook --disable-ecal make make install -- NEUE MOBILNUMMER: +43 660 4859550 Franz Knipp, Dipl.-Ing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- knipp(a)m-otion.com +43 660 4859550 https://www.xing.com/profile/Franz_Knipp --------------------------------------------------------------------- m-otion GmbH Favoritenstr 4-6/III, 1040 Wien +43 1 205705 (Fax 99) --------------------------------------------------------------------- www.m-otion.com