[Users] Building CM 3.17

[Dave Howorth]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:59:07 -0400
Lee Underwood <mail at leeunderwood.org> wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> I got this far:

You were offered a few different methods of building claws, so you'll
need to tell us what you were doing.

Please post the entire output from the start up to this point,
including the commands you typed.

> "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  
> 
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