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ℹ️ The user describes the process of building Evolution from CVS and shares a helpful tutorial for others to follow. They also mention some errors they encountered during the process, such as test-component issues or secasnl.h not existing, and provide solutions for those problems.

I got the evolution↗ from CVS and after a day of experiments finally built it succesfully :)

[Here](http://go-evolution.org/Compiling_Evolution_from_CVS) is the best tutorial for building evolution from source !! Just follow the steps and  in case of any errors, don't panic ! and cooly take  look at the Evolution FAQs [here](http://gnomebangalore.org/wiki/index.php/EvolutionFaq)

Well i will just reiterate the steps ;)

1. Make sure you have the mozilla-nss-devel , mozilla-nspr-devel and openssl-devel packages. If you don't have them do a google search  and get them. Mozilla-nss Releases are [here](ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/) . 2. I will assume you have got the sources from the CVS using the procedure described [here](http://go-evolution.org/Compiling_Evolution_from_CVS#Before_the_actual_build_takes_place) 3. After getting gtkhtml,evolution-data-server and evolution sources. First install GTKHTML. 
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> PKG\\\_CONFIG\\\_PATH="/opt/evo/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig"
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> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/evo/

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> make

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> sudo make install

4. Then cd into the evolution-data-server directory and here is what i did :

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> PKG\_CONFIG\_PATH="/opt/evo/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig"
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> ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/opt/evo --enable-exchange=no --with-nss-includes=/usr/include/nss --with-nss-libs=/usr/lib/ --with-nspr-includes=/usr/include/nspr --with-nspr-libs=/usr/lib/  

> make

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> sudo make install

5. Now comes the final stage :) CD into the evolution directory..in my case it was cd ~/cvs/gnome/evolution then :

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> PKG\_CONFIG\_PATH="/opt/evo/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig"
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> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/evo/ --enable-nntp=yes --enable-ipv6=yes --enable-nss=yes --enable-smime=yes --enable-plugins=all --with-nspr-libs=/usr/include/nspr/ --with-nss-libs=/usr/include/nss/  

> make

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> sudo make install

6. Now get the script from here and put it in /bin , then run it :) I hope you will see the latest evolution njoy !!

Well here are some errors i came across :

1.  something related to *test-component* . If this error comes just change the arguments in 
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> ./autogen.sh [all other arguments] --enable-test-component=no

2. If some error related to secasnl.h comes then

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> cd /usr/include/nss  

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> ls  

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> secasnl.h doesnot exist please install mozilla-nss-devel and then
> rebuild evolution :)  

> If both of them exist do check if you have provided the correct

> location of libraries in ./autogen.sh configuration..  

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Finally it needs lots of patience of go through this process ;) I think i built around 5 or 6 times. each time getting some different errors..hey do ask for help in the irc node :: \#irc.gimp.org in the \#nosip or the \#evolution channels.

Well i think this is the first step to hacking opensource software resources..looking forward to have some really nice hacking experience..

*I am just a novice..may be there is some mistake in this how to..so please refer to the tutorial links i mentioned in the start..don't forget to correct me in case something is missing !! *

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