[Users] Building CM 3.17

[Lee Underwood]

This is what I got using the instructions below:

lee at lee-desktop:~$ cd ~/tmp
lee at lee-desktop:~/tmp$ git clone https://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
Cloning into 'claws'...
remote: Counting objects: 115637, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23780/23780), done.
remote: Total 115637 (delta 98740), reused 107173 (delta 91650)
Receiving objects: 100% (115637/115637), 52.71 MiB | 8.82 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (98740/98740), done.
Checking out files: 100% (1489/1489), done.
lee at lee-desktop:~/tmp$ cd claws
lee at lee-desktop:~/tmp/claws$ git rev-parse --short Head
fatal: Needed a single revision
lee at lee-desktop:~/tmp/claws$ git rev-parse --short HEAD
aecf6d5c2
lee at lee-desktop:~/tmp/claws$ ./autogen.sh
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, 'config'.
libtoolize: copying file 'config/ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
configure.ac:54: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated.  For more info, see:
configure.ac:54: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.ac:96: installing 'config/compile'
configure.ac:51: installing 'config/config.guess'
configure.ac:51: installing 'config/config.sub'
configure.ac:54: installing 'config/install-sh'
configure.ac:54: installing 'config/missing'
src/Makefile.am: installing 'config/depcomp'
configure.ac: installing 'config/ylwrap'
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configure: JPilot support not available
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NetworkManager not found.
checking whether to use libetpan... yes
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checking for libetpan-config... no
*** Claws Mail requires libetpan 0.57 or newer. See http://www.etpan.org/ 
*** You can use --disable-libetpan if you don't need IMAP4 and/or NNTP support.
configure: error: libetpan 0.57 not found
lee at lee-desktop:~/tmp/claws$ sudo checkinstall --pkgname=claws-mail --pkgversion=3.17 --pkgrelease=6-aecf6d5c2
[sudo] password for lee: 

checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
           This software is released under the GNU GPL.


The package documentation directory ./doc-pak does not exist. 
Should I create a default set of package docs?  [y]: y

Preparing package documentation...OK

Please write a description for the package.
End your description with an empty line or EOF.
>> Claws-Mail 3.17
>> 

*****************************************
**** Debian package creation selected ***
*****************************************

This package will be built according to these values: 

0 -  Maintainer: [ root at lee-desktop ]
1 -  Summary: [ Claws-Mail 3.17 ]
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: 

Installing with make install...

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

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

lee at lee-desktop:~/tmp/claws$ 



Thanks,
Lee


==============================================================
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, John Crisp <jcrisp at safeandsoundit.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:39:12 +0100
> Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > You were offered a few different methods of building claws, so you'll
> > need to tell us what you were doing.
> >   
> 
> For reference I just tested again on mine in case I missed a step, and
> this built fine:
> 
> cd ~/tmp
> git clone https://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
> cd claws
> 
> Get the commit to use in checkinstall:
> 
> git rev-parse --short HEAD
> aecf6d5c2
> 
> Then:
> 
> ./autogen.sh
> sudo checkinstall --pkgname=claws-mail --pkgversion=3.17
> --pkgrelease=6-aecf6d5c2
> 
> > Please post the entire output from the start up to this point,
> > including the commands you typed.
> >   
> 
> As Dave says, you need to provide some decent output for anyone to be
> able to help you further.
> 
>