[Users] Building CM 3.17

[Lee Underwood]

Thanks.

I got this far:

"Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue"

I pressed ENTER and got this:



========================= Installation results ===========================
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.





Now what?

Lee


On Tue, Jul 28, 2020, John Crisp <jcrisp at safeandsoundit.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:32:10 -0400
> Lee Underwood <mail at leeunderwood.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have Claws-Mail 3.16 and Ubuntu 18.04. So I need to learn how to
> > build 3.17. Can someone point me to where I can find instructions?
> > I'm not 'too' technical when it comes to this. Any help is
> > appreciated.
> >   
> 
> Personally I use the git repo, so clone that.
> 
> Then:
> 
> ./autogen.sh
> 
> Fix missing dependencies (see other posts on this)
> 
> Then:
> 
> sudo checkinstall --pkgname=claws-mail --pkgversion=3.17
> --pkgrelease=6-aecf6d5c2
> 
> ===============================================
> 
> checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
>            This software is released under the GNU GPL.
> 
> 
> *****************************************
> **** Debian package creation selected ***
> *****************************************
> 
> This package will be built according to these values: 
> 
> 0 -  Maintainer: [ root at my-xubuntu ]
> 1 -  Summary: [ claws-mail from git source ]
> 2 -  Name:    [ claws-mail ]
> 3 -  Version: [ 3.17 ]
> 4 -  Release: [ 6-aecf6d5c2 ]
> 5 -  License: [ GPL ]
> 6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
> 7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
> 8 -  Source location: [ claws ]
> 9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
> 10 - Requires: [  ]
> 11 - Provides: [ claws-mail ]
> 12 - Conflicts: [  ]
> 13 - Replaces: [  ]
> 
> Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 
> 
> ===============================================
> 
> And off you go. Build a nice deb that you can then install/distribute
> 
> Here is my list of deps I originally needed....
> 
> sudo apt-get install bsfilter dillo checkinstall flex libgnutls28-dev
> libgtk2.0-dev libetpan-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libpoppler-glib-dev
> libgpgme-dev libytnef0-dev libical-dev libarchive-dev libwebkitgtk-dev
> libgdata-dev libgumbo-dev libperl-dev python-gtk2-dev libnotify-dev
> libcanberra-gtk3-dev libcanberra-dev libcanberra-gtk-dev
> libdbusmenu-glib-dev libnm-dev docbook-utils compface
> libcompfaceg1-dev librsvg2-dev enchant libenchant-dev libldap2
> libcompfaceg1-dev
> 
> Only thing that it doesn't build is this:
> 
>                 Disabled due to missing dependencies:
>                     unity/messaging-menu
> 
> But I don't use Unity......
> 
> 
> My 10c worth !!
> 
> B. Rgds
> John